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Come on @nytimes! You should be better than this. #proofreading pic.twitter.com/rVrqfWe0Cl

— Jane Eldridge Miller (@jeldmiller) February 17, 2018

Robots don't understand why truncation of this headline here is funny. pic.twitter.com/tRu5R3BJty

— 𝙼𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝙲𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚊 (@MikeCimetta) April 17, 2018

 

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