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  • The more unusual or bizarre the person was, the more "interesting" they would become in Walter's parlance.†  (source)
  • In Jamaican parlance, a store is not a store, it is a "Chinee-shop."†  (source)
  • 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)
  • Cesar had what is known in many parlances as a moment of clarity.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • He had been drugged repeatedly, taken up to the moon, in the parlance of those who usually administered such narcotics.†  (source)
  • In the parlance of economists, such a case is known as an information asymmetry.†  (source)
  • In Army parlance it was known as single-unit triangulation, and it was highly effective, though slow.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • He was, in the parlance of horsemen, "bombproof."†  (source)
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