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I am having trouble making sense the word "parks" in the title. Is "GM parks" an entity, or is this a mistake and "parks" is just an extra verb in there?

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It’s a verb, to park, as in to put something in a particular place and leave it there. Here, it means that they’ve settled the claims, promised to behave in the future, and they’re moving on. It is very awkward and seems impossible to understand without reading more. Maybe it makes more sense to the British.

It does not make more sense to the British, this is just the particular "clever" writing style favoured by The Register. Maybe it was sharp in the 2000s, I can't honestly remember, but these days it makes the site pretty much unreadable for me.

It's a poor choice of words considering GM makes cars, yes in other contexts I would read "parks" as "shelves" or "puts on hold" but even with your explanatory note it took me a couple of reads to figure out what the title actually means

I assume they chose it exactly because GM makes cars. El Reg likes being clever even to the detriment of clarity.

I think that "addresses" would be a better word there? I guess they were going for a pun, but it didn't land for me either.

They are using "parks" to mean "settles"

Yea, trying to be funny with target specific references, only to construct a difficult to parse sentence. It's like saying a certain politician would love to couch a certain meme

at least that pun makes sense. in this context, "park", as I understand it, means to temporarily put something aside, generally something you have control of, like "let's park that idea and move onto ...", not like claims adversaries are making.

same, absolutely terrible choice of a verb for the headline

It's a pun. As in, "parks a car."

It's how the register rolls.

What they mean is, they parked it, like a car, put a stop to, ceased movement.

There must be some way to have their wordplay without such a clunky sentence.

"GM stopped in their tracks before they cruised over people's privacy rights further"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/15/cruise-...

I must admit, even as someone who's used to their headlines, this one took me a second.

I was also wondering which parks GM owned, and thought "claims" was a verb.

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