Mike Dolbow on Nostr: Because I looked it up, TIL about the second definition of the word "graft": ...
Because I looked it up, TIL about the second definition of the word "graft": "practices, especially bribery, used to secure illicit gains in politics or business; corruption."
For years I thought people were misspelling "grift". Because that's pretty much the same thing.
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