The dictionary definitions of convent and monastery do not include married men and women and single persons living separate lives in separate households.

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The state, however, finds this clarity insufficient, believes that all definitions entail multiple words (or a dictionary would be a thesaurus), and so elaborates on its own, creates similarity out of disparity, and changes the meaning of these terms in the process.

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As this NYT piece explains, Facebook has forced new definitions of words such as like and friend to enter our communal dictionary.

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