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Recent Examples of legalese
In a twist of municipal legalese, any charter revision floated by the mayor’s commission could block the advice-and-consent expansion from being enacted this year, as both reforms would require referendums, but only one of them can by law make it onto November’s general election ballot.
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Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 6 June 2024
While crouched in legalese, the bond documents are full of warnings that investors might not get their money back.
—Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 9 May 2024
But there’s an automatic pause — in legalese, a stay — if the person or entity obtains a bond guaranteeing payment of what’s owed.
—Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2024
Over the course of 88 pages of surprisingly readable legalese, the US Department of Justice attempted to make the case that Apple is a problem.
—David Pierce, The Verge, 22 Mar. 2024
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Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 6 June 2024
While crouched in legalese, the bond documents are full of warnings that investors might not get their money back.
—Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 9 May 2024
But there’s an automatic pause — in legalese, a stay — if the person or entity obtains a bond guaranteeing payment of what’s owed.
—Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2024
Over the course of 88 pages of surprisingly readable legalese, the US Department of Justice attempted to make the case that Apple is a problem.
—David Pierce, The Verge, 22 Mar. 2024
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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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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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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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So, of course, their stony-eyed dedication to taking this inspirational gobbledygook seriously has gone viral.Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
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“Legalese.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/legalese. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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