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Futurelight Freethinker Shells

K, it’s not often a gear review starts with a language lesson, but then again, this is no ordinary gear. So let’s get to it; today’s lesson is about synecdoche (si-nek-duh-kee), the grammatical term when single words represent a greater whole. A synecdoche can take several forms, but one of them is when a product dominates a field so completely that the very brand name comes to define an entire class of products. Think of Kleenex for tissues and Band Aids for

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