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Recent Examples of legalese
But there’s an automatic pause — in legalese, a stay — if the person or entity obtains a bond guaranteeing payment of what’s owed.
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Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2024
Over the course of 88 pages of surprisingly readable legalese, the US Department of Justice attempted to make the case that Apple is a problem.
—David Pierce, The Verge, 22 Mar. 2024
Then in comes Hamill's Mr. Pym, the family's undefeated lawyer, to shut them all up with legalese.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 20 Sep. 2023
When Boeing faced similarly protracted regulatory reviews before, some of Calhoun’s predecessors of were ill-advised to hide behind exceedingly vague, impersonal legalese in deference to regulators and investigators–which did not end well.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2024
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Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2024
Over the course of 88 pages of surprisingly readable legalese, the US Department of Justice attempted to make the case that Apple is a problem.
—David Pierce, The Verge, 22 Mar. 2024
Then in comes Hamill's Mr. Pym, the family's undefeated lawyer, to shut them all up with legalese.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 20 Sep. 2023
When Boeing faced similarly protracted regulatory reviews before, some of Calhoun’s predecessors of were ill-advised to hide behind exceedingly vague, impersonal legalese in deference to regulators and investigators–which did not end well.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for legalese
Noun
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Details of new initiatives were bogged down by mind-numbing bureaucratese.Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2023
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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
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This is the modernist quest reduced to Silicon Valley psychobabble.Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2022
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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
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Roberts’s majority opinion is pure gobbledygook The Bruen decision placed an enormously high burden on any government lawyer trying to convince a court that any gun law is constitutional.Ian Millhiser, Vox, 21 June 2024
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Others claimed the leaks were just artificial intelligence gobbledygook.Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 18 Apr. 2024
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“Legalese.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/legalese. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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