{"id":34064,"date":"2021-08-22T13:44:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T18:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=34064"},"modified":"2021-08-22T13:44:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T18:44:40","slug":"word-of-the-day-721","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/08\/22\/word-of-the-day-721\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fulminate<\/em>:<\/p>\n

v. ful\u00b7mi\u00b7nat\u00b7ed, ful\u00b7mi\u00b7nat\u00b7ing, ful\u00b7mi\u00b7nates<\/strong>
\nv.intr.<\/p>\n

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  1. To issue a thunderous verbal attack or denunciation: fulminated against political chicanery.<\/li>\n
  2. To explode or detonate. [The Free Dictionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Noted in “Trump & Co. engineered the pullout from Afghanistan. Now they criticize it<\/a><\/em>,” Max Boot, WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

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    As recently as July, [Trump’s Secretary of State Mike] Pompeo was eager to \u201capplaud<\/a>\u201d the [American withdrawal from Afghanistan], saying he wanted \u201cthe Afghans to take up the fight for themselves.\u201d On Sunday, by contrast, he was fulminating<\/a> that \u201cweak American leadership always harms American security.\u201d He went on to ludicrously accuse the Biden administration of being \u201cfocused on critical race theory while the embassy is at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Boot himself rather blew it in a later column, however. I chose not to critique it as it was several days out of date by the time I read it, and it seemed unfair.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Fulminate: v. ful\u00b7mi\u00b7nat\u00b7ed, ful\u00b7mi\u00b7nat\u00b7ing, ful\u00b7mi\u00b7nates v.intr. To issue a thunderous verbal attack or denunciation: fulminated against political chicanery. To explode or detonate. [The Free Dictionary] Noted in “Trump & Co. engineered the pullout from Afghanistan. Now they criticize it,” Max Boot, WaPo: As recently as July, [Trump’s Secretary of State \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34068,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34064\/revisions\/34068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}