So we started listening to the uses of the term around us.
Indeed, Haiti inspired one of the earliest literary uses of the term "magic realism".
One of the first uses of the term "Brooklynize" I dug up came from a 1920 Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce Bulletin.
Protests in Seattle in 1999 and in Genoa two years later encouraged more uses of the term, as did global trade negotiations in 2006.
The 13th century also produced one of the few medieval uses of the term courtly love, in the Occitan (Provençal) romance Flamenca, which refers to amor cortes.
But I thought it would be worth a quick note on the uses of the term "creationism" since it serves all sides to blur some of its distinct meanings.
Only then is it possible to disentangle the social and philosophical uses of the term from its status as a quasi-scientific explanation and to promote, so far as possible, the scientific truth.
The most common uses of the term senior developer is to indicate either someone with a deep specialised knowledge beyond their peers or someone who leads or instructs other developers.
The scholar Stephen Railton traces the first printed uses of the term to the black nationalist Marcus Garvey and his followers, in about 1919, a year of bloody race riots as black World War I veterans demanded their civil rights.
A boy named Eden Stern-Rodriguez, 16, was there with a group of high school friends, all of whom stood adamantly against any extrapolated uses of the term gay whatsoever.
One of the earliest uses of the term can be traced to the 19th-century novelist John William De Forest, who in 1868 equated it with a "picture of the ordinary emotions and manners of American existence".
