Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
Merriam-Webster
4.6from 1,672 ratings
- 947
- Episodes
- 907
- Transcribed
- 1,672
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
- 3M
- YouTube views
About Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
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- Publisher
- Merriam-Webster
- Category
- arts · education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 14 Feb 2024
- Latest episode
- 13 Oct 2026
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abscond
Published 13 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So having a variety of financial intermediaries is good, but they need to be regulated and supervised by objective parties using objective standards. If not, someone could open a bank, take deposits, and abscond to a tropical isle. In Take the Money and Run, a 1976 song by the Steve Miller Band, the singer punctuates a song about teenage bandits with the catchy refrain, Go on, take the money, and run. granted the song probably wouldn't have charted had it been titled abscond but the meaning would have been the same abscond is a word most often used in formal contexts for when someone is running and hiding from the law often with cash or other ill-gotten gains in legal circles it's used specifically when someone flies like an eagle from a jurisdiction to evade the legal process as in absconded from parole the history of abscond doesn't evade scrutiny. […]
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- 3,286,211
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 1,291 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 381 ratings
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- Social presence
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- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 100
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