It was in the 1980s that a new jargon of 'Yuppies' and 'Nimbies' entered common usage.
Several participants subsequently introduced this term at their offices, and it quickly entered common usage.
After World War II, he said, the term "crimes against humanity" has entered common usage.
The words "credit crunch" were yet to enter common usage, and lenders were still being easy with mortgages.
This is often cited as the original October surprise, though the term did not enter common usage for several years.
Nationalization, unmentionable only yesterday, has entered common usage not least because an even scarier word — depression — is next on America's list to avoid.
In titling "The End of Ideology" and another work, "The Coming of Post-Industrial Society" (1973), Mr. Bell coined terms that have entered common usage.
The character of Quixote became an archetype, and the word quixotic, used to mean the impractical pursuit of idealistic goals, entered common usage.
Deborah Cameron, writing about feminist dictionaries, has cited the example of the word "lesbian," which wasn't included in the Oxford English Dictionary until 1976, roughly two centuries after it entered common usage.
To the contrary, many new words that enter common usage from unlikely sources are useful and uniquely describe specific meanings; think, for example, of "geek" and "dis" and "spam," all of which I use with pleasure because they are, quite simply, good words.
The phrase Potemkin village entered common usage in Russia and globally, despite its fictional origin.
