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Buzzwords are frequently used in news media. These are words that do not typically occur in everyday speech, but are common among newscasters, talking heads, and pundits on cable news.

These ‘news words’ are accepted by audiences for their implied meaning. But often loaded words are misused or used out of context. The actual definitions can be different than what is implied.

Newswordy is a growing collection of these words, updated every weekday. Along with each word is a definition, a quote with its use (or misuse) in the media, and a news and Twitter feed on the subject.

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Cupolas.

A small dome, especially a small dome on a drum on top of a larger dome, adorning a roof or ceiling.

City officials in Napa had long worried that the grand building on the corner of Second and Brown streets—with its brick walls and giant red-tiled cupolas—could be devastated by a major earthquake.

Christine Mai-Duc, Rong-Gong Lin & Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times