journalese

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Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Even names, idioms, and cultural references are sometimes exoticized or reduced to caricatures, reinforcing narrow or misleading representations.
    Diana Spehar, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
  • At that time, writers like Ashbery and Frank O’Hara were helping to establish a new idiom in American poetry, something serious without self-seriousness: the new poetry was open to the city’s rhythms, irreverent but tender—and clearly, if not openly, gay.
    David S. Wallace, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Sure, the ending is solved by a convenient bit of technobabble, but even that could be seen as spoofing Trek.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Simplification is about presenting information in a manner that best resonates with an audience and putting aside technobabble that may be confusing.
    Steve Durbin, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • In British fashion parlance, the signature single flower, attended occasionally by a bit of lace, is called a fascinator.
    Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The maneuver, in military parlance, is known as a force multiplier.
    Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • This could involve helping systems learn colloquialisms and proper usages of terms.
    Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2025
  • You would be forgiven for assuming this a playful colloquialism, perhaps revealing a tenderness to the hunt.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
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“Journalese.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/journalese. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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