Sentence examples for as blanket term from inspiring English sources

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Young people may use "cougar" as blanket term for all annoying parental behaviors.

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Both deploy similar language, such as "liar press" as a blanket term for the media, or "traitor" to refer to Merkel and other supporters of her asylum policy, which they would like to see turned on its head, with controls along the entire length of Germany's borders.

In the new millennium the term rock has sometimes been used as a blanket term including forms such as pop music, reggae music, soul music, and even hip hop, with which it has been influenced but often contrasted through much of its history.

But all critically inflect the celebratory national portrait that the show delivers, questioning what "Russia" as a blanket term might mean.

"They can just blame it on Al Qaeda, and even then they use Al Qaeda as a blanket term for any Sunni extremist group, so they don't have to explain who may really be behind the attacks," he said.

The Syrian government uses the word terrorists as a blanket term for its opponents, many of whom took up arms after the government fired on demonstrators early in 2011.

In the literature it is customary to use the metaphor of a "belief-box" (cf. Schiffer 1981) as a blanket term to cover whatever specific computational role belief sentences turn out to have in the mental economy of their possessors.

Yet 'happiness' also serves as a blanket term for a domain of concern that involves both positive and negative states, namely the kinds of mental states involved in being happy or unhappy.

Although Sous Vide technically means "under vacuum," most folks now use it as a blanket term for all low-temperature cooking that's done with a water circulator.

In the United States, advanced directives are used as a blanket term that can refer either to a living will or a durable power of attorney, two distinct methods designed to safeguard autonomous choice.

Most want "Europe" as a proxy or blanket term for accountability, transparency, democracy.

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