Sentence examples for code term from inspiring English sources

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The "social issue", a code term for crime in the streets, bombing, drug abuse, abuse of the police, etc. was not exploited with much success.

Cocaine users say they are looking to "ski" or searching for "ski bunnies" who will presumably trade sex for drugs, and pot smokers use a longtime code term for marijuana, 420, to identify themselves.

His 2003 comments indicate that he had picked up at least one ID code term: "If a teacher wanted to say (creationism) is what some people believe and presented a range of views, there's nothing wrong with that" (Thevenot 2003) (emphasis added).

For another 20 minutes, Marian railed against the European Union and advocated for the rights of "polite people" – a code term for white ethnic Slovaks.

You see, the other self-serving sobriquet appropriated by the right is "pro-family," a code term for opponents of reproductive rights, marriage equality, and other progressive policies that actually empower families of all kinds.

And she seems to think this commission is likely to suggest a value-added tax, which is hilarious to me, unless "value added tax" is now the secret code term for "massive cuts in entitlements".

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When Lenny, ever a wishful thinker, wonders if he'll get a free pass back to his premobster lifestyle if he releases Jimmy, his hostage explains their predicament in mob code terms: "Nobody gets any guarantees.

"The Kraut," he told me, with that same fist-to-the-face laugh, is his affectionate term for Marlene Dietrich, an old friend, and is part of a large vocabulary of special code terms and speech mannerisms indigenous to the Finca Vigia.

Their hack, called the Human Code Project, uses several IBM Watson APIs, including its Natural Language Classifier, to power a search interface for translating JavaScript code terms into plain English.

During the hackathon they uploaded a training document to Watson, and created two classifier sets — one for definitions of code terms and one for phrases, explains Roslyn.

By the time DI began peddling its model academic freedom bill in 2007, a complete set of recycled code terms had publicly supplanted "intelligent design" for policy-making purposes.

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