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Example sentences for: telethon

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Even though the American taste for plundering placenames has provided words like telethon to other nations, some have commited semantic thefts of their own.
Then in 1949 the San Francisco Examiner reported on a telethon , cautiously enclosing the word in quotation marks to show it was a neologism.
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.
In any case, telethon took hold quickly.
The OED insists telethon is “orig.