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(Also, the modifying phrase "called roaming fees" has roamed awfully far from what it modifies, "charges").

-- The Capital City" Every television show starts as a phrase called a log line.

I made a note that the phrase called to mind a famous line from "Death Fugue", the Paul Celan poem: "Death is a master from Germany".

In the next-to-last phrase, called the fuging section or fuge, each of the four voices enters in turn singing the tune or a slightly varied version of it.

The book is dedicated to them, with the phrase "called back" under their names: these were among the last written words of Emily Dickinson, later inscribed on her headstone.

Darwin, in a lovely phrase, called it "philosophical laughing," which was his way of saying that those who depart from cultural or intellectual consensus need people to walk beside them and laugh with them to give them confidence.

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But in his new biography he pushes back against the phrase, calling it "pejorative".

An earlier Conservative critic once coined a deadly phrase, calling the Major government "in office but not in power".

A million people in Britain work as call handlers, a job title presumably coined when the weight of scorn made the phrase "call centre worker" too cumbersome.

Lustig, who likes to turn a phrase, calls it the Voldemort of sugars – and it is biggest in the sugar load of soft drinks.

Jerome Valcke, FIFA's secretary general, infuriated Brazil's sports authorities when he recently referred to the delays, employing a polemical phrase calling for a kick in the backside to get things moving.

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