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death by spell check

The negative outcome after one submits a written work that contains a critical error or errors, due to reliance on a word processor's imperfect spell checker function. Many job seekers suffer death by spell check after submitting a résumé riddled with errors. When undergrads would come see me in the Writing Center, I would always warn them about death by spell check. You cannot rely on spell check to fix every mistake you might make! I'm a terrible speller, and I've suffered death by spell check more than once with my term papers.
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