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A comment on Baking bread using 4,500 year old yeast from Ancient Egyptian pottery (2019). Parent comment

Re:Baking bread using 4,500 year old yeast from Ancient Egyp... by BTCOG on Thursday November 04, 2021 @11:27AM (#29108391)
Was an improper use of the word decimate, which means to kill 1/10th of an army. He likely meant to use annihilate.
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Re:Baking bread using 4,500 year old yeast from Ancient Egyp... by homo_ergaster on Thursday November 04, 2021 @01:45PM (#29110300)
That’s a cromulent usage of decimate https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/the-original-d...
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