Not familiar with the somewhat obscure word shibboleth? I will presently explain it. The term is an ancient Hebrew word...

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  Look. What did you see? Did you witness the existence of something or did something happen? Are you satisfied...

A recent article on LinkedIn tells how the author, Michelle Chaffee, experienced extreme dissatisfactions in a “state of the art”...

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