In ordinary parlance, a conspiracy theory describes something preposterous or paranoid. |
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Then there are folks like these two, who in demographic parlance are baby boomers turned empty nesters. |
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Each graph stood for a whole word, and the writing was therefore logographic, or in less common parlance, lexigraphic. |
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Systems of this kind are referred to as telefacsimile systems in present-day parlance. |
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But, in medical parlance, it is the body's response to a situation or an environment that is unwelcome, unwarranted, unconquerable and unplanned. |
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It's a neat theatrical trick that sees us introduced to the intentionally harsh vulgarisms of sexual parlance. |
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By which he meant in modern parlance that Americans shared a common culture which made republican government possible. |
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More crucially, who decided that these words could be used in common parlance without explanation? |
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Perhaps in ordinary parlance this is disclosure of confidential information in the interests of the bank. |
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Both are seeds, in the language of botany or natural history, but not in commerce nor in common parlance. |
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I am all for American regional cookery and the trappings of taste, custom, and parlance that go with each. |
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That win had to be shared because, in cricketing parlance, bad light stopped play at Valderrama. |
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What other phrases from popular TV shows can you think of that have slipped into common parlance? |
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However, hearing Irish as it is spoken makes you realise how polluted and Anglofied it has become in common parlance. |
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Freudian language has seeped into common parlance like that of no other writer since Shakespeare. |
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In modern parlance this word quickly conjures up notions of government regulation and regulated industries. |
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It is true that these are terms of public parlance, rather than of popular speech. |
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In common academic parlance, a removal from the classroom, even if with full pay, is a suspension. |
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Is there a justification for retaining the word in literature from the past, when its use would have reflected common parlance? |
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It has, in the parlance of sport, been a steep learning curve for the Scottish squad, but one which is still climbable. |
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But the unpredictable disorder of markets is, in Microsoft parlance, not a bug but a feature. |
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In everyday parlance, a manifold is a pipe or chamber bristling with subsidiary tubes. |
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In modern footy parlance, toughness no longer means being the guy you'd least like to receive a shirtfront from. |
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In the parlance of the entertainment biz, these companies were really just projects. |
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In market parlance, they overweight the most recent information and underweight the information that came before. |
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The result is a bound phrase, in the parlance of linguists, that takes its meaning from the context in which it is used. |
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Object in his parlance means something met with in experience, or in the subject's consciousness. |
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Then of course we have the emergence of words like funner and funnest into common parlance. |
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In common parlance, it is usual to designate all low-cost imports as dumped imports. |
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It is a statement that will send many stakeholders, as they are called in modern bureaucratic parlance, into a tizzy. |
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In common parlance, targets have both a measurement dimension and a time dimension. |
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Whooping cough or Pertussis, as it is called in medical parlance, is a contagious disease. |
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Respect and seek assistance when uncertain about local parlance, idioms, and expressions. |
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In cognitive science, the term concept is used in a more restricted way than in common parlance. |
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In the parlance of the day, he achieved the photographic equivalent of ''grokking'' his subjects. |
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I don't find him despicable but, rather, in an earlier parlance, unevolved. |
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To put it in the local parlance, you won't be able to bust a bootlegger, right? |
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In legal parlance, on the other hand, 'legal source' refers to the origin and embodiment of the law. |
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You have to work out what we call in trade parlance coherence, that is, specific, detailed, coordinating mechanisms. |
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In popular parlance, Epicureanism thus means devotion to pleasure, comfort, and high living, with a certain nicety of style. |
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In Internet parlance, the baby-faced de Jong is a newby, and he's not hiding the fact with his overly earnest fluster following his unceremonious deflowering. |
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Many new terms were created that are now common parlance among politicians. |
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Instead, he's just a cad, a dirty old man in contemporary parlance. |
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But Scott, in taking the parlance of the street to the SportsCenter desk, helped affirm its ascendance. |
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In popular parlance, at least, the image of the internet user shares much with the image of the nerd, suggesting a cerebral, solitary enthusiast with a sophisticated palate. |
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They have become far too acceptable in common parlance on a regular basis. |
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Rather he is, in clinical parlance, a paranoid megalomaniac. |
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And the action against them therefore needed to be commensurate – concomitant in Cyril Ramaphosa's parlance. |
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Just don't get caught up in all the Washington fancy talk and parlance. |
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Exploits, in the parlance, of this holey code have peppered the history of consumer electronics. |
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Lightsome Curry, so relatable, in the current Hollywood parlance, only seems to have made the load on LeBron James's shoulders that much heavier. |
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The c-word has become acceptable parlance for children in mainstream movies. |
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And he explained it to me, broke it down in layman's parlance. |
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Shortened in medical parlance to h. flu, it bears no relation to the viral infection influenza that strikes every winter. |
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The concept of manifest destiny first entered American political parlance in the 1840s, when continental expansionism first became physically sustainable. |
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The campaign finance laws at issue in these cases are what, in First Amendment parlance, are known as content-neutral. |
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Nevertheless, for several years it has been part of common parlance, if not a general consensus, in the area of urban development aid. |
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We took common parlance and moved it explicitly into the code so the public would not be confused and would clearly understand the law. |
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In archaeological parlance such trash deposits are known as middens. |
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The term 'bankruptcy' was taken up from common parlance to indicate many situations. |
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In today's parlance, it looks like a bumbag that's been shifted north. |
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Nevertheless, the term doping in common parlance refers to any use of stimulants, whether by professional athletes or schoolchildren. |
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Within a few weeks I will reach 70 years, so henceforth, Biblically speaking, I will be on borrowed time or, in modern parlance, I am nearing my best before sell by date! |
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What's beyond my tolerance is that, clad in ancient costumes, the characters are speaking a contemporary language chock-full of modern parlance and quips. |
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It always surprises you to hear the Arabic pronunciation of words that have entered American parlance. |
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It has brought the game, in footballing parlance, into disrepute. |
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Indeed, George Smiley has entered common parlance. |
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It is not in itself a legal parlance subject tomorrow morning to the Supreme Court of Canada's decision, albeit that is somewhat ironic since it would appear that it got it wrong the last time. |
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It would eventually become the official parlance of the Byzantine Empire and develop into Medieval Greek. |
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That one's a red line, in the parlance of our times. |
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I would comment on it further to say that it's regrettable that it has been said in the media that excited delirium is not in the parlance of psychiatry. |
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Like the curate's egg in English parlance, it is good in parts. |
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In WHO parlance elimination means doing away with the disease as a public health problem, as distinct from eradication which means literally wiping the causative organism off the face of the earth. |
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Corporate governance has over the years become common parlance amongst corporates globally. |
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Linguistic identity has not yet established which terms shall prevail, and all three are used in common parlance. |
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Proper Yorkie VVEXPLOSIVE finish Loved reading Steve Palmer's struggle to fathom out the sport's parlance in his Racing Education series. |
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By far the biggest favourite for the tintack is Southampton boss Paul Sturrock,who in football parlance has 'lost' the dressing room. |
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In common parlance, the term jet engine loosely refers to an internal combustion airbreathing jet engine. |
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The term Greater London has been and still is used to describe different areas in governance, statistics, history and common parlance. |
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However the label 'cathedral' remains in common parlance for notable churches that were formerly part of an episcopal denomination. |
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In petroleum industry parlance, production refers to the quantity of crude extracted from reserves, not the literal creation of the product. |
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In local parlance, Valentina is a camel, a pack animal for Chinese goods. |
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In popular parlance, freedom is used as a synonym for liberal democracy. |
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In common parlance and legal usage, it is often used imprecisely to mean illicit drugs, irrespective of their pharmacology. |
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Regardless, after the release of Phuture's song, the term acid house came into common parlance. |
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In modern parlance, the term is most often applied exclusively, especially in the United States, to the rougher plaster coating of exterior walls. |
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In the parlance of the counterculture, I was supposed to live hard, die young and leave a beautiful corpse, as so many men of my time actually did — men smarter, more talented, better looking and just plain better than me. |
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Stanley turned out to be, in the parlance of the day, a raving lunatic. |
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In common parlance a protruberant stomach is still referred to as a beer belly, although beer drinkers, provided that they drink in moderation, are in fact less at risk of developing a beer belly. |
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In recent years the term social union has come into common parlance. |
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Or, in common parlance, not a double entendre. |
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In the common parlance, in fact, he's called a dealer. |
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Finally, I should like to thank Mr Poettering because I believe that the Belgian initiatives, as we say in common parlance, are getting a bit much. |
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This is referred to in common parlance throughout Europe as the Brexit. |
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The BSA requires financial institutions to engage in customer due diligence, or KYC, which is sometimes known in the parlance as know your customer. |
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Thus Ghalib, whose official name and title was Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan, is referred to formally as Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, or in common parlance as just Mirza Ghalib. |
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In Australian parlance he was the tall poppy that was never felled. |
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In Hindu ethical parlance Hamm needs to keep Clov affected by the choice to extend the dimensions of his choices within the ambit of the existentialist enigma of dukkha. |
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The term house doctor has crossed over into everyday parlance and, countrywide, home owners are high on the scent of spondoolicks and magnolia paint fumes. |
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