Pentagonese

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Noun
  • These methods can be tricky to digest, however—especially since some of their names come from Latin and legalese can be difficult to understand.
    Ashley Case, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Many of them do not have high levels of computer and internet literacy and need someone to help them through all the legalese of a nearly century-old social program with a wonky user interface.
    Eli Hager, ProPublica, 22 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Details of new initiatives were bogged down by mind-numbing bureaucratese.
    Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The most striking aspect of Putin’s failure to accept responsibility for the Kursk disaster was his retreat into bureaucratese.
    Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2020
Noun
  • This is the modernist quest reduced to Silicon Valley psychobabble.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The show is savvy enough to sense how easily human ache can fall prey to the manipulative language of certain practitioners, and how alluring psychobabble can be, in the right context.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2021
Noun
  • Through liberating song and dance and bold visuals, this odyssey follows the journey of four remarkable women in Mexico, each pursuing their own happiness.
    DeMicia Inman, VIBE.com, 3 Mar. 2025
  • There was also a song and dance number about the contenders’ notoriously long running times, as well as an appearance by a hoodie-wearing Adam Sandler.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 2 Mar. 2025
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“Pentagonese.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Pentagonese. Accessed 20 Mar. 2025.

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