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journalese

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as in bureaucratese

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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

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The multigenerational family epic is one of my favorite kinds of novels, and Min Jin Lee is a master of that idiom.

— Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2026
In that context, all three filmmakers agreed that, while English films are on the rise, the idiom is just another card on their table—and Swiss directors are eager to play their hands.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 6 Sep. 2026

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With its iconic captains, philosophical dilemmas and unforgettable alien encounters, the Trek universe is rich with lore, logic, and a whole lot of technobabble.

— Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 19 Oct. 2025
Some individuals’ self-destructive dependence on AI to make sense of the world through religious prophecy, sci-fi technobabble, conspiracy theories, or all of the above has led to family rifts, divorces, and gradual alienation from society itself.

— Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2025

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Augusto, Marrero, Hernández and countless others have little choice but to figure things out which, in Cuban parlance, means overcoming whatever obstacle is placed in their way.

— Juan Carlos López, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2026
In response, the town shifted its marketing to late-night booze-ups and wedding parties (known, in British parlance, as stag dos and hen dos), and subsequently grew a reputation as a sandcastle Sodom.

— George Francis Lee, New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2026

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