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Noun
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Marc, never again will there be our little outbursts of song and dance.—
Jessica Lynch,
Billboard,
3 June 2025 -
Kids will take a trip in song and dance to Miss Jamie’s Farm at 10:30 a.m. on July 19.—
Myrna Petlicki,
Chicago Tribune,
31 May 2025
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When Agreements Become Infrastructure Perhaps the most profound shift is this: trade agreements, once enshrined in legalese and negotiated by diplomats, are now being expressed as code.—
Sean Lee,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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If anything, some users may rely on agents to review legalese for them.—
Paresh Dave,
Wired News,
22 May 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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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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“Governmentese.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/governmentese. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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