In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
GROUNDSWELL
Etymology
Noun
groundswell (plural groundswells)
(nautical) A broad undulation of the open ocean, often as the result of a distant disturbance
(by extension) A broadly-based shifting of public opinion
Source: Wiktionary
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INITIALISM
(noun) an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately; “HTML is an initialism for HyperText Markup Language”
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