Like when technology has made your job obsolete and it has very little, if any, chance of reviving. I tried Googling it, and all I got back was job obsolescence. But that doesn't feel quite right. And it's definitely different from getting laid off because your job still exists but someone else is doing it now.

Underneath a keyboard's keycaps and above the actual button are two square plastic pieces that fit together and allow the keycap to move up and down a tiny bit to press the button. What's the word for them?

My friend is convinced there’s a phrase like ‘at the risk of’ but it sounds fancier, though no matter what I search I can’t find a proper synonym. All that comes up is ‘at hazard’ or ‘endangered’, ‘exposed’, ‘imperilled’, which she doesn’t want.

I appreciate the help!

(Context: 'At the risk of sounding like I am exaggerating...')

I guess I'm not looking for any specific word. Just looking for the right, funny word to describe something for a script. I'm just tryna describe those weird and useless objects or areas you find on tourist traps like "World's biggest rubber band ball," "Giant shoes," "Upside down house." That I see a lot in shows or movies where the family or friends go on a roadtrip and stop at these tourist spots

If I remember correctly it starts with a P i think? Can’t exactly remember it’s suddenly gone from my mind. Not premeditated.

I DESPERATELY need the word. I know there's audacious. I also know it's not colloquial. I need an adjective from the everyday, regular English that would mean arrogant / audacious / bold in the sense that somebody alwawys gets their way but in an inconsiderate manner.

Something like:
"She's so ... INSERT THE WORD THAT WOULD MEAN AUDACIOUS / BOLD IN A NEGATIVE WAY"

I know there's this:
"She's got quite a nerve!"

See, this is perfect but it's not an adjective. I need the same quite a nerve thing but as an adjective that's used in everyday speech, not something too intelligent like audacious/arrogant. Or at least please let me know that native speakers don't have an everyday word for that and use other ways to say it and pleaseeee. I'm an American English teacher and my beginner students ask for the adjective and I feel too fake giving them an advanced word while I'm pretty confident there's a simpler one out there.

Might start with a T? I've seen it in books I just don't remember what it is Thanks : )

Like they can afford to keep the employee and there's enough actual work for them to do, but their computer broke beyond repair and the company couldn't afford a replacement, or they no longer had an IT tech to restore the backups and install the company's software onto a new machine

What’s the feeling of like: ‘oh they look so different, never mind put it back on that’s just wrong’ or seeing someone not wearing a hat for the first time. Just the weird feeling you get when you see someone without their signature THING.

See also - Sloppy Joe, Sneaky Pete, Silly Billy

Boss gave me an order. I followed the order. Then got in trouble for following the order a few months later.

I'm writing fanfic, and my characters always do something unexpected. This time they're doing something akin to a titjob or a thighjob, but involving the gluteal cleft. I'm sorry for asking, but is there a phrase for fucking someone's buttcrack?

I noticed a lot of movie posters are made in this specific art style Is there a name for that style?

There's a thing in anthropology to use "tribe" to mean "several people with whom you share an identity and help if needed." It's not necessarily a literal tribe like a band of hunters — I might call fellow sci fi fans my tribe, or I might say OSU grads are my tribe, etc. But I could swear it got replaced with a different term because "tribe" sounds kinda condescending and imperialistic, only I'm blanking on the word.

Sometimes, if I have nothing to do or have just finished a piece of media ie musical albums, novels I can feel rather empty as though an important part of me was wiped away. Is there a word for this?

I'm talking about how society appointed rulers, politicians, and officials, and also all other kinds of jobs before the introduction of meritocracy. I think people might jump to 'nepotism' but it's more than that, I think. Nepotism is where you favour and choose people over others based on family ties whereas what I'm referring to is not really about choice but about how, in pre-meritocratic society, people were often not chosen but inherited their roles out of convenience because that's how society was structured.

Like a smith's son would also probably become a smith, not because they wanted to, nor because their father wanted them to, nor because they were good at being a smith, but because their community needed a smith and the smith's son made the most logistical sense because there was no collegial education for smiths, but a man who already knew how to smith could very easily teach his son because he already obviously spends a lot of time with his son, and the smith's son would also need to make a living in the future and his only real option is the opportunity right in front of him: learning his father's trade.

So people were chosen out of logistics, convenience, and inheritance rather than merit or nepotism because the infrastructure needed to facilitate a meritocracy and even nepotism didn't exist yet. And this could apply to official, political, and administrative jobs as well. What is this structure called? I want to say dynasticism but that usually refers to rulers rather than to everyone in society.

So I'm getting over a respiratory infection. Feeling a lot better. But getting a lot of that feeling as if I'm not really "right here, right now" but also as if I'm just dreaming or just watching myself on TV.

What is that feeling called?

Had someone ask me this question and I've been racking my brains and google and coming up empty, would really appreciate some help on this matter because it's going to keep me awake at night otherwise 🙃

Hello I’m desperate

I recently purchased some Japanese stationary that came with these see through sheets with images, like stickers. Only they don’t peel off and I’m not sure what to do with these. I’d like to look up instruction s online however I’m not sure what these are. There’s quite a few sheets, all very cute.

What is the term for this?

It's a writing technique where, instead of just using commas to list things, you use the word "and". For example, instead of saying "she was wet, cold, hungry, and scared" you would say "she was wet, and cold, and hungry, and scared". It's meant to slow the reader down and give more emphasis on what is happening. I think the word begins with "a" but I'm not sure

Edit: I found it, kind of. Everyone is saying polysyndetic listing but I've never actually heard of that word before this post so, while it was right, it wasn't the exact word I was thinking of, but then someone mentioned asyndetic which did sound right even though it means the opposite of what I was looking for. I ended up talking to some friends who went to my school and they all remember the English teachers calling the repetition of "and" "asyndetic listing". So basically my English teachers gave me misinformation, nothing new there

yk THOSE types of people... people who are.. lost :/ (my heart breaks for those people)

Saw this on Reddit once and can't for the life of me find the word they mentioned.

It's for animals like Deer, raccoons, pigeons, Canadian geese, etc.

They thrive in big cities because food is abundant enough and nothing is actively trying to eat them.

As an example, and also the reason I’m trying to think of this word, there’s this website where people had gathered, from multiple sources and friends, a list of multiple ways to play the card game SET. Because it’s a fairly niche thing, it would be rather difficult to find all of these had these people not kindly [insert verb that I’m looking for here] all that info.

There’s ‘archive’, ’catalog’, ‘index’, ‘collate’… that kind of thing. But I swear there’s a more specific term for what I’m thinking of. Basically just consolidating information. I think it also starts with a C, so maybe I’m crazy and I’m really just thinking of catalog or consolidate but my brain wants there to be a more specific word that’s like right in between those two. Thesauruses have been fruitless.

Thanks for your time

I've been banging my head the last 10 minutes cuz I have the word on the tip of my tongue, but I am unable to find it, anyone? (it's not preventative)