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A judge calls this evidence from DOJ vs. Google an embarrassing exhibit?

(a judge) calls (this evidence from DOJ), ('an embarrassing exhibit')

an exhibit, in this context, is a piece of evidence

this one was embarrassing for google

you guys remember the archaic "which" article that was on hackernews a few days ago?

"DOJ vs Google evidence releases, which evidence judge calls embarrassing"

found it!: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37629780

I loot authors I read for grammar, and I picked this and “nb” up from David Foster Wallace, who used both all the time. This usage of “which” is really handy for achieving clarity in certain situations.

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