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Recent Examples of legalese
These methods can be tricky to digest, however—especially since some of their names come from Latin and legalese can be difficult to understand.
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Ashley Case, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
Many of them do not have high levels of computer and internet literacy and need someone to help them through all the legalese of a nearly century-old social program with a wonky user interface.
—Eli Hager, ProPublica, 22 Feb. 2025
A little bit of drama, a little bit of comedy, the legalese of it all.
—H. Alan Scott, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025
The nation needed somebody who could pull the strings, massage egos, calm Congress, walk through the land mines of fickle public opinion, issue legalese when needed, and hold forth in public messages of near biblical elevations when that was needed in its turn.
—arkansasonline.com, 12 Feb. 2025
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Ashley Case, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
Many of them do not have high levels of computer and internet literacy and need someone to help them through all the legalese of a nearly century-old social program with a wonky user interface.
—Eli Hager, ProPublica, 22 Feb. 2025
A little bit of drama, a little bit of comedy, the legalese of it all.
—H. Alan Scott, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025
The nation needed somebody who could pull the strings, massage egos, calm Congress, walk through the land mines of fickle public opinion, issue legalese when needed, and hold forth in public messages of near biblical elevations when that was needed in its turn.
—arkansasonline.com, 12 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for legalese
Noun
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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
Noun
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As always, Yellowjackets is full of mind-bending detours, supernatural gobbledygook, and foliage-laden costumes.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
18 Feb. 2025
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Apologies to the Lois Lane stans out there, but Adams is mostly on hand in these movies to deliver stern gobbledygook (something about isotopes?) and stare at Henry Cavill’s cheekbones.—
Matthew Jacobs,
Vulture,
6 Dec. 2024
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“Legalese.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/legalese. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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