Sentence examples for on a jargon from inspiring English sources

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Hall falls back on a jargon - 'challenge, disturb, provoke' - which makes theatre-going sound like a moral duty.

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But both countries may well find themselves lapping each other on a jargon-littered circuit of "dialogue" and "action plans" for a lot longer than that.

That puts a new gloss on "state capture", a jargon term for a kind of deep official corruption.

More specifically, the company is putting forward two arguments often heard by businesses in the same position: namely, that its goals are "stretch" targets (corporate speak for "ambitious") and that it's "on a journey" (jargon for, "we're not there yet").

She then proceeded to take on the jargon of the theorists.

With barely a week to organise a vote on a technical jargon-heavy question, the result remains on a knife edge.

Clearly, the word "proud" has become a kind of on-message jargon in Canberra; almost every politician I interviewed said they were "proud" of what they had done for Aboriginal people.

Run-on sentences, technical jargon, and bloated expositions have no place in this world.

The families of the 52 victims of the 2005 attack are also calling for a ban on jargon and "management speak" among the emergency services, saying it had led to confusion between professionals on the day of the attacks.

But they will lose the argument if they fall back, as arts campaigners are doing, on quantifiable popularity, on jargon, special pleading, job protection, "economic return" and political correctness.

Watching "Nebraska" reminded me of something that the writer George Saunders has said about creating characters who rely on corporate jargon or have "a very rudimentary, working-class diction".

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