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In Pentagon parlance, it provides "full-spectrum dominance".
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In Hollywood parlance, "The Box" was over $100 million.
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"Hoarder" hadn't entered everyday parlance, but Mamaw fit the bill, and her tendencies only worsened as she withdrew from the world.† (source)
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The more unusual or bizarre the person was, the more "interesting" they would become in Walter's parlance.† (source)
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In Jamaican parlance, a store is not a store, it is a "Chinee-shop."† (source)
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In the parlance of economics, Julien has said to Pari that if she cut off the supply of attention, perhaps the demands for it would cease as well.† (source)
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In engineering parlance, it embodied little "dead load," the static weight of immobile masses of brick and steel.† (source)
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Cesar had what is known in many parlances as a moment of clarity.† (source)
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He then turns the conversation to the last issue on his agenda, telling Pelcovits he's planning to take all his classes satisfactory/no credit, or S/NC, Brown's parlance for pass/fail.† (source)
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He had been drugged repeatedly, taken up to the moon, in the parlance of those who usually administered such narcotics.† (source)
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In the parlance of economists, such a case is known as an information asymmetry.† (source)
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In Army parlance it was known as single-unit triangulation, and it was highly effective, though slow.† (source)
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To Franklin fell the unpleasant duty of breaking the news to Ver-gennes, and fortunately so, as in the parlance of diplomacy, it was a "delicate" moment.† (source)
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By the word nonlove I do not wish to imply that he took a cynical attitude to the young woman, that, as present-day parlance has it, he looked upon her as a sex object; on the contrary, he was quite fond of her, valued her character and intelligence, and was willing to come to her aid if ever she needed him.† (source)
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In simpler parlance, his body had grown weary of the war and manifested its protest with a general weakness of the limbs and a constant fever.† (source)
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He was, in the parlance of horsemen, "bombproof."† (source)
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