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Corporate communications increasingly feature the phrase “it’s not just X, it’s Y,” a pattern some link to generative AI.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
In practice, critics say, the phrase has become shorthand for science in which preferred outcomes outweigh inconvenient evidence.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
It's a phrase that first ricocheted through Budapest during Hungary's ill-fated anti-communist uprising of 1956.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
He said he would help build a new country free of corruption and fear, and he deployed for the first time a phrase that would later become his campaign slogan: “now or never.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
There was no phrase to describe Dr. Achebe’s face.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
Vocabulary lists containing phrase
PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade7)
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The SAT: Language of the Test, List 4
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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