As anyone who reads me will recognize, I am not a language pedant, but there is one usage over which I am a bit of a stickler: “begging the question.”
The incorrect usage conflates “begging the question” (or “begs the question”) with essentially, “raises the question” as in, “Donald Trump threatening to arrest and jail his opponents begs the question as to whether or not Democrats can come up with a strategy that speaks to the needs of regular Americans.”
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