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discomgooglation

discomgooglation
 n.— «Now Google has become a symbol of the internet as a whole. A YouGov survey published last week found that Britons suffered from “discomgooglation”—a term used to describe how lost people feel if they can’t get on the internet.» —“Google once reviled computer superpowers but domination is just what it is achieving” by Emily Dugan The Independent Sept. 7, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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