Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A belief in a supernatural or paranormal phenomenon that people continue to hold, in spite of it being debunked.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
History
Coined by James Randi, by analogy to the way a rubber duck will pop back up to the surface after being submerged.
