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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

Definition of bureaucratese

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To borrow from a more crude idiom, the Knicks need to shoot or get off the free throw line.

— Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 31 Oct. 2026
Its palette is broad, moving from comic to straight rap, from Cab Calloway swing to Beyoncé-style ballads, each idiom chosen for its dramatic purpose.

— Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 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

Definition of technobabble

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Energized by plentiful memetic internet parlance, these shows are becoming standalone legitimate, admired entertainment franchises.

— Annie Corser, Vogue, 5 Nov. 2026
This is one of the few glimpses that the film offers of the Special Military Operation, as Russia’s war in Ukraine is known in official parlance.

— Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026

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