as in song and dance
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This is all a familiar song and dance: Ambitious ideas about reducing health care spending quickly run into political reality, which includes heavy backlash from the health care industry.—
Caitlin Owens,
Axios,
28 Feb. 2025 -
Check out Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, an annual festival of song and dance, which runs in a different city, town, or village around the country every August.—
Yvonne Gordon,
AFAR Media,
31 Jan. 2025
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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
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A little bit of drama, a little bit of comedy, the legalese of it all.—
H. Alan Scott,
Newsweek,
19 Feb. 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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The show is savvy enough to sense how easily human ache can fall prey to the manipulative language of certain practitioners, and how alluring psychobabble can be, in the right context.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
19 Aug. 2021
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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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“Educationese.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/educationese. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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