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Word of the Day: abjure (The New York Times)

formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure. Listen to the pronunciation. Powered by Vocabulary.com. Listen 0:01.

See every Word of the Day in [this column](https://www.nytimes.com/column/learning-word-of-the-day). All comments are moderated by the Learning Network staff. It is most important that your sentence makes sense and demonstrates that you understand the word’s definition, but we also encourage you to be creative and have fun. 15 in the book review “ That’s the choice that Elizabeth I famously made, though for two decades of her 45-year reign there was constant pressure to make the right political match. Can you use it in a sentence?

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Word Count & SEO: What Content Marketers Need To Consider (Search Engine Journal)

Does the length of your content factor into your SEO? How concerned do you need to be with word count? Learn the answers to these and more.

In the early days of SEO, ranking highly for a keyword generally meant jamming that word or phrase into your content anywhere it would go. And a higher word count alone will not help you rank higher. Make it easy for them to find what they need. Instead, you’re going to search for [Good Chef’s Knife] and drill down from the Wusthof or retailer’s general page. “Don’t shoot for a particular word count — just make sure you cover a topic in full. Guides, skyscrapers, pillar pages, and content hubs make the most interesting link targets. And that seems to be predominantly because they do not have any backlinks: It determined that a minimum word count depends upon the page type. So, every article needs to be as long as it needs to be. And if so, what’s the best length for pieces of content? Taxonomy and product pages tend to work fine with fewer words because they’re highly specific. And that will hurt your quality scores.

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