Journalists misuse (and overuse) the word "exponential" more than any other. As in: "Yet growing residential proximity between whites and blacks also contains

Journalists misuse (and overuse) the word "exponential" more than any other. As in: "Yet growing residential proximity between whites and blacks also contains the potential for exponential progress in bridging America's long-standing racial divide, especially as families from different racial backgrounds share schools and grocery stores." (emphasis mine) Maybe there is potential for an improvement in the pace of reducing that divide, but I highly doubt it can be described as exponential. Though I guess that is a small nitpick. Probably a bigger one is that in their words it is a "complicated story with lots of nuances" that they boil down at the end to simply gerrymandering congressional districts and how it will change the balance of Democrats/Republicans. I'm sick of every news story coming down to politics, and by politics I mean electioneering.