Sentence examples for deployment of the word from inspiring English sources

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Mr. Widmer scores bonus anti-style points for the nonironic deployment of the word "poppycock".

There's a lot of bait-and-switch throughout "Tropic Thunder," including its use of blackface, which, along with the promiscuous deployment of the word retard, has earned it much of its advance publicity.

We have assiduously monitored the deployment of the word "nigger," but the idea that it is meant to convey has become, in the past few years, increasingly prominent, visible, and dangerous.

She was the child actor who, aged just 11, not only played an ultraviolent pre-teen killer called Hit-Girl in 2010's Kick-Ass, but sent shockwaves rippling through the moralistic media with her casual deployment of the word "cunt".

"Daddy doesn't know the prices of dresses and panties so why don't you suggest a budget?" Alarmingly the most depressing thing about this one isn't the casual deployment of the word "panties", but the fact that it reads like a pull quote in support of a news item about how "9/10 MPs doesn't know the price of a pint of milk".

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Much was made during the presidential campaign about Barack Obama's deployment of the words "hope" and "change".

So the stages here are set for many — many — deployments of the word "miracle".

The aesthetics surrounding the lyrics ground the message: fast-fisted snowy guitar, drums that build up to double and triple time, and six sneering deployments of the word "fuck".

But when it comes to other human beings, we seem to have invested almost totally in metaphoric deployments of the word: "ugly" now describes degrading items like the steadily worsening rhetoric of Donald Trump; or, simply, sinful behavior, as in: "God don't like ugly".

Even by the standard of depressingly witless statements to emanate from the Liverpool manager this season, the deployment of the c word – "conspiracy" – can hold its own.

Considerable controversy was generated by President Obama's recent deployment of the N word in a radio interview.

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