An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
DEMOCRATIC
democratic, popular
(adjective) representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large; “democratic art forms”; “a democratic or popular movement”; “popular thought”; “popular science”; “popular fiction”
democratic
(adjective) characterized by or advocating or based upon the principles of democracy or social equality; “democratic government”; “a democratic country”; “a democratic scorn for bloated dukes and lords”- George du Maurier
Democratic
(adjective) belong to or relating to the Democratic Party; “Democratic senator”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
Democratic (not comparable)
(US politics) Of or pertaining to the Democratic Party.
(rare) Of or pertaining to democracy: democratic.
Etymology
Adjective
democratic (comparative more democratic, superlative most democratic)
Pertaining to democracy; favoring democracy, or constructed upon the principle of government by the people.
(US) Relating to a political party so called; usually, Democratic.
Exhibiting social equality, egalitarian (see online Oxford).
Source: Wiktionary
Dem`o*crat"ic, a. Etym: [Gr. démocratique.]
1. Pertaining to democracy; favoring democracy, or constructed upon the principle of government by the people.
2. Relating to a political party so called.
3. Befitting the common people; -- opposed to aristocratic. The Democratic party, the name of one of the chief political parties in the United States.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INTERSPERSION
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
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