phraseology

Example Sentences

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Bono: I wish I had the courage and phraseology to say exactly that.

From Los Angeles Times

On the eve of last year’s elections, former president Barack Obama suggested that an electoral problem for Democrats is that they are too focused on forcing people to use “the right phraseology.”

From Washington Post

All the clichés — bullying, or intimidation, or aggressive management, all the phraseology that is synonymous.

From Salon

In Brandstein, Kaufman and Samuels' capable hands, the documentary maintains a laser-like focus on love — "the word known to all men," in the phraseology of James Joyce, one of Lennon's literary idols.

From Salon

It repeats the phraseology of the military doctrine but adds details about four circumstances under which a nuclear strike would be ordered.

From Reuters