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The true Rubicon that Americans crossed was on the question of torture, or “enhanced interrogation,” in the Bush administration’s Orwellian terminology.

“It all seems pretty Orwellian,” said Kimbrough Moore, a rock climber and Yosemite National Park guide book author.

The phone had been programmed so that when a South Korean variant of a word is entered, it automatically vanishes, replaced with the North Korean equivalent - an Orwellian move.

Beers, who was surprised by the win, said the world “seems to become slightly more Orwellian with each passing day.”

As adjectives go, “Orwellian” tends to be prematurely invoked — and hyperbolically, if often in good faith.