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Ocasio-Cortez Sparks 'Socialism' Lookups

'a way of organizing a society in which major industries are owned and controlled by the government'

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The Good, The Bad, & The Semantically Imprecise - 7/13

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  5. insubordinate 'disobedient to authority'

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