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March 30, 2023

Word of the Day: Golem

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Word of the Day
: March 30, 2023

\GOH-lum\ noun

What It Means

Golem refers in Jewish folklore to an artificial humanoid being endowed with life. It can also refer to someone or something (such as a robot) resembling such a being.

// She came to regard her punctilious supervisor as a golem who never had an unprogrammed thought in his life.

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