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Recent Examples of legalese
And navigating coverage can feel like decoding legalese without a translator.
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Christer Holloman, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
And unlike the burning of Black Wall Street, this erosion happens quietly, on paper, in tax codes, through trusts, probate courts, and legalese that disproportionately excludes our communities.
—Jehan Crump‑gibson, Essence, 10 July 2025
So that felt like a huge success, and it was born out of research — just digging in, finding out more about the technical things, from the legalese that these characters speak to how a dash-cam DVR actually works.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 11 June 2025
Its rhythms shift, as the warm interactions of the troupe contrast sharply with the drab legalese and agonizing emotional accounting required in the world beyond the theater’s walls.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 June 2024
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Christer Holloman, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
And unlike the burning of Black Wall Street, this erosion happens quietly, on paper, in tax codes, through trusts, probate courts, and legalese that disproportionately excludes our communities.
—Jehan Crump‑gibson, Essence, 10 July 2025
So that felt like a huge success, and it was born out of research — just digging in, finding out more about the technical things, from the legalese that these characters speak to how a dash-cam DVR actually works.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 11 June 2025
Its rhythms shift, as the warm interactions of the troupe contrast sharply with the drab legalese and agonizing emotional accounting required in the world beyond the theater’s walls.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for legalese
Noun
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Details of new initiatives were bogged down by mind-numbing bureaucratese.—
Sharon Grigsby,
Dallas News,
11 Apr. 2023
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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
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The overly earnest character speaks in a hilariously cringey Gen Z self-help psychobabble that continuously grates on Enrique’s nerves.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 May 2025
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Sometimes, such content might be portrayed as being valid psychological science versus non-sensical psychobabble.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Bob Kring DeBary Congressional bill is full of greed The Great Big Beautiful Bill reads like 950 pages of of gobbledygook distilled into four words: Greedy, stingy, mean and short-sighted.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
2 July 2025
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The six-episode limited series feels like a long movie broken into arbitrary episodes, its ending is mired by digital gobbledygook, and Marvel still doesn’t know how magic makes sense in a universe ruled by advanced technology and literal gods.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
24 June 2025
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“Legalese.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/legalese. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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