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This comedy/romance/drama follows the true story of Erin Brockovich (Julia Roberts in an Oscar-winning performance), a struggling single mother who, despite knowing little about legalese, fronts a lawsuit that would become groundbreaking on the environmental front.—
Travis Bean,
Forbes,
11 Jan. 2025 -
In Amazon’s case, consent is often buried in legalese, and few have the time—or expertise—to parse.—
Jason Snyder,
Forbes,
11 Jan. 2025
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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
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This is the modernist quest reduced to Silicon Valley psychobabble.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
27 Oct. 2022
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The show is savvy enough to sense how easily human ache can fall prey to the manipulative language of certain practitioners, and how alluring psychobabble can be, in the right context.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
19 Aug. 2021
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There are grand old-fashioned song and dance spectacles but also solo numbers that do fine without any extravagance.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
6 Feb. 2025
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Same old story, same old song and dance for the Wolves.—
Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
21 Jan. 2025
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“Pentagonese.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Pentagonese. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.
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