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Asked about Burnham's ambitions, Lord Hermer refused to engage in what he termed speculation.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

Predicting the weather over the next 72 hours, Krick favors what might generously be termed a historically informed approach and what might ungenerously be dubbed barmy pseudoscience.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

One commentator termed this stock melt-up the “bliss trade.”

From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026

Connolly, the son of a police chief, started as a prosecutor working on homicides and gang-related matters, which he termed “the most serious cases in the system.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

But one of those subfamilies, termed Malayo-Polynesian, comprises 945 of those 959 languages and covers almost the entire geographic range of the Austronesian family.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond