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Noun
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The West has, well, elaborate permitting processes defined in legalese.—
Wal van Lierop,
Forbes.com,
15 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
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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
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In early colonial times, churches had strict guidelines on music, song and dance.—
Kaitlyn Keegan,
Hartford Courant,
19 July 2025
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It’s got the big song and dance numbers, it’s got fun characters, it’s got magic tricks.—
David L. Coddon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 July 2025
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“Pentagonese.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Pentagonese. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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