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The association wanted to create a program that would be entertaining to a local audience by inviting performers from outside the Village to demonstrate both traditional and contemporary song and dance numbers.—
Penny E Schwartz,
Oc Register,
30 Mar. 2025 -
In 1989, singer/dancer/actor Gregory Hines co-presented with Sammy Davis Jr., the top song and dance man of a previous generation.—
Paul Grein,
Billboard,
25 Feb. 2025
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Rather than forging ahead through complicated legalese, business owners are provided with step-by-step, readable guidelines.—
Chris Gallagher,
USA Today,
10 Apr. 2025
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These methods can be tricky to digest, however—especially since some of their names come from Latin and legalese can be difficult to understand.—
Ashley Case,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 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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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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This is the modernist quest reduced to Silicon Valley psychobabble.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
27 Oct. 2022
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“Governmentese.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/governmentese. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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