newspeak

Example Sentences

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As John Wilson pointed out in the 1990s, “PC” was a discourse that inspired readers—and above all, thousands of would-be stand-up comics—to come up with their own “PC” newspeak.

From Slate • Jan. 5, 2025

“Food processor” sounds like newspeak concocted by a sinister culinary regime to reassure the international community.

From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2022

It gripped him long before he came up with Big Brother, Oceania, newspeak or the telescreen, and it’s more important than any of them.

From The Guardian • May 19, 2019

From Orwell’s evocation of the totalitarian superstate of Oceania, new words entered the language: doublethink, thoughtcrime, newspeak and Big Brother.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 3, 2019

A topsy-turvy continent adrift among the gales of newspeak, under the gaze of a million grey bureaucrats passing for big brothers.

From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Vaknin, Samuel