as in song and dance
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Before long, smitten cast members, including Sarah Sherman and a cameraman wearing an I (Heart) Harry shirt who kept focusing on Styles, proved too much for Gosling, who called off a big song and dance number featuring most of the cast in silver space attire.—
Omar L. Gallaga,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Mar. 2026 -
Not his first blockbuster deal This isn’t Gore’s first time doing the song and dance of being traded.—
SportsDay Staff,
Dallas Morning News,
22 Jan. 2026
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Lawyers and Uber are also battling over legalese about who would be responsible for paying medical bills after a crash.—
Levi Sumagaysay,
Mercury News,
24 Feb. 2026
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This is as much about legalese and interpretation as right vs. wrong.—
Steve Buckley,
New York Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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The overly earnest character speaks in a hilariously cringey Gen Z self-help psychobabble that continuously grates on Enrique’s nerves.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 May 2025
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Sometimes, such content might be portrayed as being valid psychological science versus non-sensical psychobabble.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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Details of new initiatives were bogged down by mind-numbing bureaucratese.—
Sharon Grigsby,
Dallas News,
11 Apr. 2023
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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
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“Educationese.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/educationese. Accessed 18 Mar. 2026.
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