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Noun
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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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But the nature of all idioms is that their meaning cannot be deduced from their components; the phrase kicked the bucket does not put the English speaker in the mind of an actual bucket, just as the word death does not remind him terribly of the letter D.—
Andrea Long Chu,
Vulture,
6 May 2025
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Best known as a savvy drummer deeply versed in a broad swath of pre-World War II idioms like ragtime, Delta blues, and swing, Devine is at home surrounded by the artifacts and ephemera that captured the sounds and spirit of that era.—
Andrew Gilbert,
Mercury News,
1 May 2025
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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
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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
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For the first time in Coachella’s 25-year history, organizers added a live performance on the opening Thursday of the festival, known in Coachella fan parlance as Zero Day.—
Dave Brooks,
Billboard,
11 Apr. 2025
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Russia's Programs Moscow's Su-57 jet—or Felon, in NATO parlance—is widely deemed a fifth-generation aircraft, but one that has been largely absent from the Kremlin's war effort in Ukraine.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Mar. 2025
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This could involve helping systems learn colloquialisms and proper usages of terms.—
Kathy Kristof,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Mar. 2025
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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 24 May. 2025.
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