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tabula rasa - Word of the Day - Sat Mar 5, 2022

Myr

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tabula rasa - (noun) - 1: the mind in its hypothetical primary blank or empty state before receiving outside impressions; 2: something existing in its original pristine state

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The world always feels like it's been reset to a tabula rasa just after the snow stops and the sun comes back out.

 

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In my family we use going tabula rasa, if someone relentlessly and radically creates order or clarity regardless of loss.

Something like wipe the slate clean.

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Daddydavek

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smooth slate

erased tablet

My last latin class was in spring 1964....

 

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When a certain politician we all know and loathe gives a speech, his vaunted tabula rasa intellect makes everything he says sound like a walrus barking: derp, derp, derp!

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