📚 noun • entry_id 55575
cautionary tale
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cuento moralizante
A story, originally told in folklore, to warn its audience of a certain danger.
And Harford’s book, of course, has more than a decade of fresh cautionary tales from our troubled era of social media, big data, algorithmic mayhem, and “alternative facts” on whic…
This tone has slowly given way to a realization that the country’s experience might be less a curiosity than a cautionary tale.
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