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hackney

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verb

as in to overuse
to use so much as to make less appealing advertisers have hackneyed the word "revolutionary" so much that it now just means that a product is new

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hackney

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noun

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“Hackney.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hackney. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.

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