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That specialization enables his team to delve into the technical nuances of estate planning while also mastering the softer skills of listening and translating legalese into workable plans.—
Malana VanTyler,
USA Today,
15 Aug. 2025 -
Instead, consumers must search about 7,000 words into a privacy policy filled with legalese to find a link to the page.—
CalMatters,
Mercury News,
13 Aug. 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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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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And the bizarre song and dance numbers, for all their anachronism, pull us in further.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
4 Sep. 2025
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As in a more straightforward musical, the Shakers are using song and dance to express a range of feelings that plainspoken words couldn’t hope to convey.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
1 Sep. 2025
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“Pentagonese.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Pentagonese. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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