Sentence examples for abused terms from inspiring English sources

"It's one of the most abused terms in business," says Peter Bakker, boss of TPG, a transport group.

ASK the federal agency charged with policing products that can be labeled "organic": it is one of today's most abused terms, right up there with "guaranteed" electronics and "luxury" apartments.

Romm's comments really highlight one of the most abused terms in modern discourse: hate speech.

Machine learning is one of these abused terms in the startup world, and certainly that is no exception in cybersecurity.

Immersive is a much bandied-about and abused term these days.

The litmus test is whether you've ever heard or used the term "paradigm shift", which is probably the most used – and abused – term in contemporary discussions of organisational change and intellectual progress.

The fragmented narrative - for once, the much abused term 'deconstruction' seems apt - could even be seen as a reflection of the book's interest (via the nuclear bomb) in the consequences of quantum physics and the Theory of Relativity, in which space collapses and time loses its linearity.

Berry acknowledged that native "is a highly abused term" (in his view, native advertising means that the ad has to match the look and the content of the site), but he argued that RebelMouse can deliver sponsored content in a real-time way that's sensitive to the user's context: "We can give publishers native advertising at scale".

It is rather an abused term in this context.

(By the way, to see why I will not call these anti-choice reactionaries "pro-life," see my own definition of this grossly abused term).

Genius also happens to be a widely abused term that privileges technical mastery (think, guitar shedding) rather than depth of emotional interpretation (another reason why female interpreters like Ella Fitzgerald have been time and time again left out of the boys' club category of genius).