genteelism

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code word
Noun
  • Greater Manchester Police had declared PLATO – a national code word used when police deploy armed officers across the force to the scene of an attack, CNN understands.
    Peter Wilkinson, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
  • So, the vertices that are indexing positions of my code word.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2025
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“Genteelism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/genteelism. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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