Sentence examples for a term that does from inspiring English sources

Texas, the couple's home state, was (and remains) a community property state, not common property, a term that does not apply to divorce law.

Livingstone's challenger, a Conservative M.P. and former journalist named Boris Johnson, is sometimes described as a toff — a term that does not exist in the United States, since nobody, in or out of politics, quite fits the bill.

In South Africa I'm referred to as "colored," a term that does not have the same derogatory denotation here as it does in the United States when it is hurled at black Americans.

The word was what I think of as an auto-antonym (a term that doesn't appear in Webster's Second): it's its own opposite.

"But they also want to identify with a term that doesn't make them feel like they're incontinent, a term that is attached to their fear of aging.

Another gift from the Moors was deep-fried fish, a term that doesn't suggest just how delicious the long ribbons of fried, marinated, pimentón-dusted skate called raya en adobo turn out to be.

The owl attacking a kid is a micromosaic; a term that did not exist 50 years ago, although the technique is more than two centuries old.

"These often high-profile working mothers needed to find a term that didn't sound like they were leaving their children with a custodial caregiver," Ms. Kapelus said.

When Nicole Kidman spoke of her newborn surrogate child, she referred to the woman as her "gestational carrier", a term that did little to improve surrogacy's public image.

Of these the first is humanism, a term that did not carry the present-day ethical or antireligious sense but instead referred to the intensive study of a revived Classical antiquity.

"We wanted a term that didn't have a history already.