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On stage at the Parsons Theatre at Northglenn Arts, the actors help each other through song and dance, reinforcing the strength of the collective beyond any one lead.—
Miguel Otárola,
Denver Post,
29 Apr. 2025 -
There’s this great song and dance scene, and there’s that beautiful set that’s these uplit buildings that are super deco.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
26 Apr. 2025
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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
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Rather than forging ahead through complicated legalese, business owners are provided with step-by-step, readable guidelines.—
Chris Gallagher,
USA Today,
10 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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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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This is the modernist quest reduced to Silicon Valley psychobabble.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
27 Oct. 2022
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“Governmentese.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/governmentese. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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