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🗣Selena Gomez | Emotional Interview Selena Gomez sits down with Zane Lowe to speak about her major milestones in the music industry and the unique challenges she faced in the process of achieving such a feat. She discusses her struggles with anxiety and dealing with being exposed to the public eye for so many years as well as overcoming that struggle by channelling it into two new singles, ‘Lose You To Love Me’ and ‘Look At Her Now’. Selena also speaks about how her decade-long friendship with Taylor Swift has been truly inspirational to her especially during her tough times when she feels like giving up.
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for February 22, 2022 is:
🔍transpire • \tran-SPYRE\ • verb
Transpire means "to happen" or "to become known."
Examples:
"Talk of the benefits of a four-day work week have circulated for years. … Now, it transpires that a six-month trial of a four-day working week is going to be launched in the UK." — Olivia Petter, The Independent (United Kingdom), 17 Jan. 2022
The police are still trying to determine what transpired on the night of the accident.
After the business magnate was arrested for financial-related crimes, it transpired that he has been in insurmountable debt for years.
❗️Did you know?
Transpire (based on Latin spirare, meaning "to breathe") was originally used technically to describe the passage of vapor through the pores of a membrane (such as the skin). From this use developed the figurative sense: "to escape from secrecy" or "to become known." That sense was used in ambiguous contexts and often meant "to happen" or "to take place."
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