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The phrase "a term for using" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when defining or explaining a specific term or concept related to usage.
Example: "The phrase 'digital nomad' is a term for using technology to work remotely while traveling."
Alternatives: "a phrase for employing" or "a designation for utilizing".
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The latter is a term for using seemingly innocuous words and phrases as verbal race bludgeons.
As for all that stuff with a rat, well, ratfucking is a term for using underhanded tactics during a political campaign.
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This is not a term for use, even privately.
20, 2011, 12 14 p.m.,nytimes.com We need a proper term for using "memory palaces".
Feinstein, who now lives in London, added: "I look back on my own work and I think – if I understand the bill in its current form – that if I had published my first book, After the Party, and this legislation had been in place, I would have been liable for a jail term for using confidential state documents.
The prisoner, Richard Straub, 64, is serving a 15-year term for using his position as a probation officer to force young men in his custody to have sex with him.
John Emmerson, who moved to Melbourne last year and was immediately snared in an account with high charges, says that 'foreign' ATM charges (the general term for using a rival bank's cashpoint) remain unavoidable.
That would be the term for using an e-cigarette to enjoy bursts of nicotine vapor, a form of nicotine consumption that saw increased popularity, and controversy, this year.
In March 1991, he was assigned to a "home base" — a term for offices used by technicians — that contained the radioactive material.
Some theorists argue that "Central and Eastern Europe" — a term for what used to be known simply as Eastern Europe — exists now only as a historical and geographic construct.
"Sometimes there are particular physios that work with certain groups of players," Ellenbecker said, using a term for physical therapists used widely outside the United States.
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