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journalese

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as in bureaucratese

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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

Definition of bureaucratese

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Its palette is broad, moving from comic to straight rap, from Cab Calloway swing to Beyoncé-style ballads, each idiom chosen for its dramatic purpose.

— Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
Over the decades, though, Reich’s idiom has become part of the mainstream.

— Joshua Barone, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2026

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With its iconic captains, philosophical dilemmas and unforgettable alien encounters, the Trek universe is rich with lore, logic, and a whole lot of technobabble.

— Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 19 Oct. 2025
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

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The last attack—or troll, to use modern parlance—has proven to be particularly popular on the car internet due to the price discrepancy between the two EVs.

— Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 22 Oct. 2026
No anything from any words that have not been used in popular parlance since the 1940s.

— Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Oct. 2026

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