Today’s “Word of the Day” is lap up and it is a phrasal verb meaning “accept something without knowing whether it is good/true; acknowledge, embrace, welcome, approve, give the nod; like, love, like or enjoy and want to have more, delight in, revel in, go in for something”.
Example Sentence: Now, under Elon Musk’s one-man rule, Twitter is being realigned. This is partly for Musk’s own recreation. He likes to “trigger the libs (liberals)” and laps up the purveyors (providers/promotors) of incitement, disinformation and far-right propaganda on his platform. But it’s also to rebalance online information ecologies further in favour of the right.
This word is present in The Guardian article Elon Musk never cared if Twitter was a business failure – he wants a political win and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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