watchword
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The watchword of those efforts, pacing, essentially means putting rules in place that would give companies more time to design A.I. guardrails.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
The “SaaSpocalypse,” a play on the acronym for software as a service, became the watchword for the meltdown.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Testifying to Congress in 2008, Greenspan acknowledged that maybe self-regulation, that watchword of his economic worldview, didn’t work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
In other words, affordability was the watchword before the high court’s decision, and it remains so.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 20, 2026
The Negro press was a signal corps, communicating between leaders and the ground troops, giving the watchword so that the Negro community moved forward in sync with America, but more importantly, as a unified whole.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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