Pentagonese

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Pentagonese
Noun
  • In legalese mixed with intimations of personal pain, Bar lists Netanyahu’s attempts to turn the Shin Bet into a secret police protecting the prime minister personally rather than the nation.
    Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Rather than forging ahead through complicated legalese, business owners are provided with step-by-step, readable guidelines.
    Chris Gallagher, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Details of new initiatives were bogged down by mind-numbing bureaucratese.
    Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The most striking aspect of Putin’s failure to accept responsibility for the Kursk disaster was his retreat into bureaucratese.
    Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2020
Noun
  • Sometimes, such content might be portrayed as being valid psychological science versus non-sensical psychobabble.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
  • This is the modernist quest reduced to Silicon Valley psychobabble.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2022
Noun
  • But at those prices, grabbing a beer and giving into the song and dance that comes afterward is far easier to do.
    Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
  • The association wanted to create a program that would be entertaining to a local audience by inviting performers from outside the Village to demonstrate both traditional and contemporary song and dance numbers.
    Penny E Schwartz, Oc Register, 30 Mar. 2025
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“Pentagonese.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Pentagonese. Accessed 5 May. 2025.

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