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Example sentences for: telethon

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In any case, telethon took hold quickly.
Even though the American taste for plundering placenames has provided words like telethon to other nations, some have commited semantic thefts of their own.
The OED insists telethon is “orig.
Watching the rolling party across the globe on ABC and CNN was strangely riveting--not least of all because Peter Jennings felt compelled to pull a Jerry Lewis telethon and anchor the whole thing himself.
A new morpheme survives the novelty of its first innovation (like telethon for - athon ) because it turns out to be useful, almost as if by accident, and brings something new into the idiom.