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|[[Agnosticism|agnostic]]

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|[[Big Bang theory|big bang]]

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|term invented by the leading [[British]] physicist Sir [[Fred Hoyle]] to ''mock'' this suggestion of how the universe was formed

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|term invented by the leading [[British]] physicist Sir [[Fred Hoyle]] to ''mock'' this suggestion of how the universe was formed, but later accepted as a serious term rather than mockery<ref>Compare this migration with that of "politically correct," which started out as a serious term but then adopted a sense of mockery</ref>

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|bilingual education

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