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LisaClaire retweeted
I talked about this on Stay Tuned recently. “Orbisculate” should be a word👇
Neil Krieger invented the word "orbisculate" to describe a citrus fruit accidentally squirting in your eye. When he died of Covid last year, his kids @HilaryKrieger & @jonkrieger launched a campaign to get @orbisculate into the dictionary in his honor. orbisculate.com/
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Guess what? We've got another orbisculate poem for you, kindly submitted by Marvin N. Robbins! Thanks a lot for this masterpiece, Marvin! 🍊🍋
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Here's a limerick shared by the "Three Orbisculophiles": “I’ll have a Corona,” said Nate, Who, without a forethought of his fate, Then squeezed a lime wedge To de-skunk the beer’s edge And got juiced as the pulp did orbisculate. Moral of the story: don't be like Nate 🥲🍋🍺
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Today is May 28th, so we are wishing everyone a happy #orbisculate day! Thanks so much again to @CityofCHeights for helping us spread the word!!!
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When Jonathan and Hilary Krieger’s father, Neil, died of COVID, they wanted to find a unique way to honor him. So they launched a campaign of 78 goals to get the word “orbisculate” — which Neil invented — into the dictionary: “The next generation will have the word and it will live on through them.”
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【TOEFLにも出ない英単語】 orbisculate グレープフルーツをスプーンでほじくった時に果汁が飛んで目に入ってしまう
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Replying to @_apexwolf5
@orbisculate - another example of why this word is needed as part of our vocabulary.
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【英検0.01級に出たことのある英単語】 orbisculate グレープフルーツをスプーンでほじくった時に果汁が飛んで目に入ってしまう
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Check out Goal #23, completed by Eric Van Soest, who used "orbisculate" within a short story in his book "Looks Can Be Deceiving: A Collection of Short Stories." amazon.com/Looks-Can-Be-Dece…
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There’s a new word that may soon be in dictionaries! It’s “orbisculate.” When you’re eating grapefruit and the juice squirts you in the eye, you’re a victim of orbisculation.
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This year, we learned what it means to "orbisculate." cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-…

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Orbisculate: A word whose time has come. orbisculate.com/
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Hello @orbisculate , I would just like you to know that while eating lunch at work in the UK I accidentally squirted tangerine juice in my eye and realised that I had orbisculated myself (is that the correct usage?). You're going international!
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Thanks @Cornell for memorializing proud alum Neil Krieger '62. As quoted in this story, his made-up word #orbisculate "captured a lot about him—his sense of humor and his ability to deal with adversity, to take what life throws at you" -- even when it's citrus juice in your eye!
Did you have grapefruit for breakfast this morning? Hopefully, it didn't "@orbisculate" on you! But if it did, the family of Neil Krieger ’62 would love it if you used his neologism to explain why you have a red eye.cornel.ly/3E8qFm0
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Did you have grapefruit for breakfast this morning? Hopefully, it didn't "@orbisculate" on you! But if it did, the family of Neil Krieger ’62 would love it if you used his neologism to explain why you have a red eye.cornel.ly/3E8qFm0

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Neil Krieger ’62 coined ‘orbisculate’ as a freshman. Now his children are working to earn it a spot in the dictionary. alumni.cornell.edu/cornellia…

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Ever orbisculated? It means accidentally squeezing citrus juice into your eye. Neil Krieger ’62 coined the term during a firstyear writing seminar more than 60 years ago. His kids have started a campaign to get the word in the dictionary. #Orbisculate as.cornell.edu/news/alum-mem…
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I saw this story on CBS Sunday Morning & I loved it! Orbisculate should totally be a word!
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We gave ourselves the goal of making orbisculate so widespread that devices would no longer put a red squiggly line under when we wrote it. We're not there yet, but Carl B. did point out that, if nothing else, we can just add the word to the computer dictionary ourselves.
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Huge thanks to @knbalke for what may be our most colorful Orbisculation Creation yet: Orbisculate in Play-Doh form. Goal 60: Get orbisculate used in Play-Doh? Check.
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