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phrase

verb as in express in words carefully

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Spend much time in any of these disciplines’ classrooms and you’ll hear such phrases as “resisting systems of oppression,” “advancing social justice” and “preparing students to become agents of social change.”

When reading this advert, you would be forgiven for skimming over the words "first-steps", as a turn of phrase.

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Too stilted in phrasing to our modern poll-tested ears, it was nevertheless, as she said in the video of her retirement announcement, “prophetic.”

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The AAUP’s own history illustrates how far interpretations of institutional neutrality have strayed from the phrase’s origins.

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A phrase that will never be used in the same sentence with Yoshinobu Yamamoto: “load management.”

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