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Fact-checkers and other journalists of the old school have high standards when it comes to calling something a lie: To fit, a statement not only has to be untrue, but you have to know the speaker was trying to trick his or her audience.
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To call something a manifesto is a brave step.
"To call something a 'traumatic event' belies that fact".
When you're changing the entire offense, everything you used to call something, they call it something else.
In the 16th century, to call something Turkish meant that it was a far away exotic thing.
Certainly, to call something slavery helps to raise attention and to galvanise action.
To call something public is to define it as dirty, insufficient and hazardous.
I'd hesitate to call something "free malaria" for fear of creating entirely the wrong impression.
Is it permissible to call something purple for rhythmic purposes when in fact it's pink?
As a family, the Spadeas are not afraid to call something a shovel.
To call something Turkish meant just that: a very faraway exotic thing.
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