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mathwashes

mathwashes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of mathwash.

Meaning of mathwash

Verb

mathwash (third-person singular simple present mathwashes, present participle mathwashing, simple past and past participle mathwashed)

  1. (intransitive, neologism, transitive) To use data and algorithms to create the false impression that a subjective decision or policy was made objectively.
    • The issue is definitional: "algorithm" has been used to mathwash functionality that would otherwise be considered arbitrary with objectivity2016 May 9, @fredbenenson, Twitter, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2024

Questions about mathwashes

What is mathwashes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Mathwashes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of mathwash.

Words near mathwashes in the dictionary

  1. Mathurin
  2. Mathurins
  3. Mathurs
  4. mathwash
  5. mathwashed
  6. mathwashes
  7. mathwashing
  8. Mathwin
  9. Mathwins
  10. mathwise
  11. mathy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mathwashes (page history and authors); mathwash (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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