Tiny nit, but it bugs me that the word "admit" has been bastardized and is now a standard tool in the clickbait-writer's toolbox. I know that language changes a

Tiny nit, but it bugs me that the word "admit" has been bastardized and is now a standard tool in the clickbait-writer's toolbox. I know that language changes and I'm no prescriptivist, but to admit something means to acknowledge it. The most common use I see, in headlines at least, is along the lines of "Notable Person says something which, if you analyze it, suggests they are a hypocrite." Or worse, "Notable Person stumbles over words during an interview. Zing!" This headline would imply that there's a high-level Apple exec on record saying the Touch Bar was a mistake. This is the opposite of that: Apple is pretending like it never happened.