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TIL resile

Today I Learned the word resile:

Verb: resile

  1. To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.  

  2. To spring back; rebound; resume the original form or position, as an elastic body.

As in “Twitter Resiles From API-Driven Site”.

Via Nat Torkington.

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