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- noun A phrase drawn from or
imitative of technicaljargon , and often rendered meaningless andfashionable through abuse by non-technical persons in a seeming show of familiarity with the subject.
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Examples
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The new buzz-phrase making the rounds of U.S. Catholic Bishops Conference in Baltimore last week was "Religious Liberty."
John Mattras: Do Unto Others: U.S. Bishops, Religious Liberty And Gay Americans' Tax Dollars John Mattras 2011
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Capello may be locked in a loveless marriage with the FA, to use the current buzz-phrase, but he is contesting an acrimonious, mud-slinging divorce with the more strident prints.
Luis Suárez should never have been able to put Asamoah Gyan on the spot | Paul Wilson 2011
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The new buzz-phrase making the rounds of U.S. Catholic Bishops Conference in Baltimore last week was "Religious Liberty."
John Mattras: Do Unto Others: U.S. Bishops, Religious Liberty And Gay Americans' Tax Dollars John Mattras 2011
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There is even a buzz-phrase for this so called zero tolerance legislation: the prison pipeline.
Terror Tots 2010
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But the approach also seems reminiscent of service-oriented architecture, a buzz-phrase that has fallen out of favor in an IT industry now obsessed with cloud computing.
Microsoft's private cloud release all about composite applications 2010
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This year's political buzz-phrase might be "we are all in this together".
International development journalism: A competition with global significance Sue George 2010
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Note his adoption of the religious right buzz-phrase "special rights."
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Note his adoption of the religious right buzz-phrase "special rights."
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I'm guessing the discomfiting use of the "entitlement reform" buzz-phrase is going to be key to pushing through comprehensive health care reform.
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Some breakaway schools will be the exceptions that prove the rule, but any systemic improvement is beyond our reach unless we show through actions rather than words that this, to use the current buzz-phrase, is the “civil rights issue of our generation.”
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