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
  • Nonnas There's a saying that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, and Joe Scaravella (Vince Vaughn) of 2025's Nonnas is the perfect depiction of the idiom.
    Jacqueline Weiss, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Because the construction is a natural and graceful part of our English idiom.
    Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Tom’s latest vehicle for death-defying stunts and — at this point — incoherent technobabble pits him against the AI from Dead Reckoning again.
    Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • The hard problem is explaining how and why beings have conscious, subjective experiences at all (qualia in philosophical parlance).
    Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
  • One part of this process, known in Senate parlance as reconciliation, provisions legislation being moved in this manner to increase the federal deficit beyond the next 10-year budget window.
    Andrea Ruth, The Washington Examiner, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Cube talking reckless, Too $hort as the pimp with a heart of gold, E-40’s deep slanguage, and smooth ol’ Uncle Snoop: this is Mount Westmore’s appeal to their graying base.
    Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2022
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 15 Sep. 2025.

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