hackneying

present participle of hackney
as in exhausting
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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“Hackneying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hackneying. Accessed 9 Oct. 2024.

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