Mr Surkov called his creation "sovereign democracy," a term whose vagueness revealed its flexibility.
And yet in much of the world "Jewish" today remains a fuzzy term whose precise meaning depends on context.
(This derogatory term — whose prefix "sheng" is the same word used in "leftover food" — was listed as a new word in 2007 by the Chinese Ministry of Education).
James Joyce called the effect an "epiphany," a term whose theological connotations have led, over the years, to a lot of critical misunderstanding.
He and Dr. Cohn coined the term, whose Greek root, "dendron," or "tree," refers to the branched projections that the cells develop.
The term, whose definition was recently added by the organization, refers to a self-portrait taken and then uploaded to a social media site like Facebook or Instagram.
Doctors initiate these painful conversations when they believe a resuscitation effort would be "medically futile," a term whose definition is debated widely in medical and bioethics journals.
Dolly A term whose origin is lost in the mist of time, this is the moving platform on which a camera is mounted.
How does "genuinely affordable" differ from plain old "affordable", a term whose meaning has been stretched to the point of meaninglessness?
A Spanish term whose literal meaning is "spirit of the house," the duende derives from a culture rooted in the idea of land.
The proposed change became a hot topic last week when former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing introduced a bill in Parliament calling for a shorter presidential term whose length would coincide with that of the National Assembly.
