So I sit on the toilet, crack the envelope (that's not a euphemism for farting), rip open the bag (again, not a euphemism), and stuff my face with drugs.
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" Mr. Pitcavage said the term white nationalism "had always been used as a euphemism for white supremacy, and today it is still used as a euphemism for white supremacy.
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"Chicken fucker" is a euphemism for pedophilia according to www.urbandictionary.com.
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Yes, that's euphemism for been around a really long time.
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"'Overwhelmed' is obviously a euphemism in this case," Freitag objects.
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Or, to borrow another euphemism, actions speak louder than words.
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" To use Tennant's euphemism, "There's some space to draw on.
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Sometimes "keeping it real" is just euphemism for being rude.
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Thanks for an alternative visual euphemism for a dick, Unicode!
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It wasn't a euphemism; they didn't have sex that day.
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Or if it's a euphemism for it is that okay?
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News Analysis Authoritarian regimes shroud their darkest features in euphemism.
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Except that "die" is actually an Elizabethan euphemism for orgasm.
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This is either delusional or a euphemism for forced resettlement.
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Especially since "havoc" is a gross euphemism for what Mrs.
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And that allows them leeway to express themselves without euphemism.
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" That term was a euphemism, he said, for "too expensive.
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"Fix" has always struck me as a very insidious euphemism.
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Rough up, if you want to use that euphemism, certainly.
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"Current opinion" is usually a euphemism for "go the other way".
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But make no mistake, he argued, white nationalism is a euphemism.
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Well-regarded, that's another euphemism for been around a long time.
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Arthur: "Winnowing" could become a nice little corporate euphemism for downsizing.
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We have a saying ... Blizzard quality, and it's not a euphemism.
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Reconstruction is often a euphemism for the final act of destruction.
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If you use some euphemism, people are left wondering, 'What happened?
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Brian, why are we continuing to use the euphemism "fake news"?
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It is a euphemism for court packing, or adding more justices.
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In the broadcast booth, "tactical" was the euphemism of the evening.
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Critics say the term is a euphemism and legitimizes hateful ideologies.
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PICKS A DOOR eventually became a euphemism for making a decision.
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"Boat person" is both nondescript and guileless; it's also a euphemism.
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But for some, "hustle" is just a euphemism for extreme workaholism.
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It's a convenient euphemism and often the best she can muster.
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But all of this is a euphemism for indoctrination and surveillance.
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To call this family diverse is an understatement bordering on euphemism.
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"Older" (as in "older Americans") tend to be the preferred euphemism.
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"Soft money is just a euphemism for free speech," he said.
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In 1997 it decriminalised "hooliganism", which was a euphemism for gay sex.
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Suddenly "shot on an iPhone" feels like a euphemism for bad lighting.
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There's a reason folks use this euphemism… I didn't 'put him down'.
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The "establishment" is a commonly used euphemism for the military in Pakistan.
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Asher and Michaela are mattress shopping (literally — that is not a euphemism).
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In the Chinese saying, 'sharing a pillow' is a euphemism for sex.
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This kind of euphemism becomes more sinister when applied to matters horrific.
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His euphemism was "the woman in Chicago," but the message was clear.
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Frankly, 50 percent seems low — and "unrealistic portrayals" an almost comic euphemism.
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We will not expose civilian lives to the euphemism of collateral damage.
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"The national press took a tippy-toe trip to euphemism town," she said.
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These days, that is a euphemism for Mr Xi and his senior advisers.
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" For everyone in 2017, "a delicate condition" is the Victorian euphemism for "pregnant.
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" It's a group in which "national security" is a euphemism for "anti-Islam.
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It may be hard to believe that the phrase was not a euphemism.
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"Tough language" should be given immediate enshrinement in the Euphemism Hall of Fame.
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She's a nimble writer, one who walks in fear of euphemism or pretension.
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They cited "technical reasons," a euphemism widely understood here to refer to censorship.
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But I think spanking — striking a child, by whatever euphemism — should go extinct.
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Then she blurted out the racial slur in its entirety, abandoning the euphemism.
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Chinese officials usually use the term "discipline violations" as a euphemism for corruption.
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Knowing that, it's difficult not to take offense at the "workplace misconduct" euphemism.
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If you're unfamiliar, no, "washing your turkey" is not a euphemism for anything.
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STEVE LIESMAN: What if we were to, for example, to stop this de-globalization which I think is a euphemism for the trade war— ROBERT KAPLAN: It's a— STEVE LIESMAN: Or maybe the trade war is a euphemism for de-globalization.
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They were scenes intended to shock, to remove any room for rationalization or euphemism.
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Popping a woman's cherry is a euphemism for when a woman loses her virginity.
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That was the euphemism that we used, but there was some truth to it.
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The U.S. could easily determine that 'bonded storage' is a euphemism for landed supply.
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Tsakalotos said that such an arrangement was essentially a euphemism for a new programme.
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In some ways, talking l33t on an IRC channel is a form of euphemism.
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Profits from selling all the "thermally demanufactured" (a great euphemism) tire products were sufficient.
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The commission uses the term "serious breaches of discipline" as a euphemism for corruption.
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"Going through" is a euphemism for having overwhelming impulses to swerve into incoming traffic.
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I was too light (euphemism for gay), too thin and just too … too much.
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Today, it seems that all that is left of this policy is a euphemism.
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It's a peppy euphemism for no desking, really no privacy and no workplace dignity.
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I always battle with jargon and euphemism and all of the paraphernalia of agreement.
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" The American Civil Liberties Union described it as a "euphemism for discriminating against Muslims.
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In India, "good corporate governance" is often used as a euphemism for "not being crooked".
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That's not just a polite euphemism covering a corporate expense that Huang takes credit for.
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"I have been on that lake," Seacrest said, inventing a new euphemism on the spot.
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Liu was put under investigation in August for "serious disciplinary violations", a euphemism for graft.
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" Here, "collaborative" is a euphemism for "afraid to fully claim your power and use it.
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Well, I would say in terms of gaming, which is the euphemism for betting, sure.
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Yet, that's not the only reason doctors have chosen that particular word for their euphemism.
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"Evolved" A politicians' euphemism to explain their shifts on issues when it becomes politically convenient.
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Hedo's staff is bend-over-backward accommodating (not a euphemism!) and our room is pimptastic.
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The country's anti-graft agency accused him of "serious disciplinary violations", a euphemism for corruption.
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Now, it's a commonplace, but also a euphemism, to say that Trump has authoritarian instincts.
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Towering barriers — "peace walls" is the official euphemism — bisect neighborhoods, preserving stability by separating communities.
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The president likes "tough" people and "tough" action, where "tough" is a euphemism for violent.
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Mourners at Milton Berle's memorial service could not stop talking about his legendary (euphemism here).
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George Carlin, a master observer of language, spoke at length about the evolution of euphemism.
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Her boss, she explains, gives her "a lot of feedback," which is clearly a euphemism.
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In real estate listings, "cozy" is no longer an unconvincing euphemism, but a coveted catchphrase.
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"Law and order" was, in practice, a euphemism for restoring white supremacy, then as now.
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" The American Civil Liberties Union also called Trump's action "just a euphemism for discrimination against Muslims.
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Above all, the promise to "control" immigration looks like a euphemism for reducing it (see Bagehot).
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Most of the reports reference lobbying to "enhance voluntary compliance" — a euphemism for opposing automatic filing.
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Gangs routinely charge "rent" — a euphemism for extortion — and those who can't pay are often killed.
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"Terrorist" has become a euphemism for Arabs and Muslims, whether or not they are law-abiding.
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" He tried euphemism: "It's like when a tree branch has to bend so it doesn't break.
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"I thought if I used a euphemism, that would make it into a joke," she said.
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We should address these matters without rancor or cruelty, but also without euphemism or undue reticence.
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Later that evening, I checked again and found that the M.T.A. had slipped back into euphemism.
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"A little cottage" sounded to Bridget like a euphemism for something, though she wasn't sure what.
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Neither of them realizes that "driving over to Exeter" is a euphemism for losing your virginity.
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Did we detect an extra layer of euphemism, or was our own American cynicism to blame?
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So I'm kind of a Snap bear — and no, that's not some sort of terrifying euphemism.
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The term "comfort women" is a euphemism for women forced to work in Japanese military brothels.
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The wave of white middle-class anger was in many cases a euphemism for racist backlash.
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This preference for euphemism over straightforward language is silly, so it's attracted considerable social media criticism.
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Along with a "common rulebook for goods"—a euphemism for the regulations of the single market—there was to be "a combined customs territory," which Brexiteers worry may yet turn out to be a euphemism for the customs union, although May insists that it is not.
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Today, 15 tech companies devoted to reshaping the way we move came together to define the euphemism.
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Critics said it would exacerbate problem gambling and attract "anti-social forces", a euphemism for yakuza gangs.
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"Some of those may have already been sunsetted," he says, using Silicon Valley's elegant euphemism for failure.
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His foreign policy is "extreme vetting," which is his euphemism for what was once the Muslim ban.
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"Striking similarities" is, as Bryan Curtis pointed out on Twitter, the preferred euphemism for what Melania read.
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My university encourages public-private partnerships, a euphemism for taking industry funding and getting away with it.
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That is a euphemism for dual-use port facilities that could also be used by naval vessels.
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EIT is a euphemism for torture, designed to make brutal interrogation methods such as waterboarding sound legitimate.
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Over the 22015 years I've known him, I would say he has become increasingly allergic to euphemism.
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Beneath his bed was the Chore Boy, but its symbolism had gone the way of the euphemism.
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I find it interesting — interesting being a euphemism — that women are often discriminated against for their gynecology.
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At Bad Saint, dinuguan has become one of the best-selling dishes, without the veil of euphemism.
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Right now we have 800 million people living in nutritional deficit, which is a euphemism — they're starving.
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But it originated as a euphemism, deliberately deployed by its proponents to try to muddy the waters.
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To jump the queue Gazans pay the tanseeq, or "co-ordination", a polite euphemism for a bribe.
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Congress use the euphemism "pay-for" when describing the process of cutting one program to fund another.
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Each line is a euphemism or statement or take on death culminating in a climax of goodbyes.
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Today's technology "disruption" is a euphemism for correctly timing the changing behaviors and expectation of customers and consumers.
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Nope, but maybe it's time she tried one ("summer ale" is now the best euphemism for "white dude").
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The official explanation for his absence, that he was "hiking the Appalachians", became a popular euphemism for infidelity.
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One of the things I learned is that the Hebrew word for 'feet' was a euphemism for 'penis.
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I've seen that in works by biblical scholars and confirmed that euphemism was in use in the Bible.
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Authorities in March announced an investigation into Lu Ziyue for "suspected serious disciplinary violations", a euphemism for corruption.
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Second is the fact that they would try to paper over what they are doing with a euphemism.
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Andy Dick recites a poem about a euphemism for suicide, and Gilbert Gottfried screams another about Burning Man.
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Will they make the grade, or will they be "career-changed" — the trainers' euphemism for flunking the program?
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The privilege of killing one (or "harvesting" one, in a hunting euphemism) remains limited to the very few.
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" Twain uses "nation" as a euphemism for "damnation," as when Jim says that someone smells like "de nation.
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I didn't go in depth with them about the euphemism of "bride" for "sexual partner," but it's irritating.
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It's really a euphemism for the public welfare: Women's purpose is to become healthy mothers who produce healthy children.
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Contrary to popular belief, National Rosé Day is not just a euphemism for every single day, all summer long.
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Later, they used chest X-rays to identify Poles with tuberculosis for "special treatment," a Nazi euphemism for murder.
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"Alt-left" is a right-wing euphemism for anyone willing to oppose those people or organize for civil rights.
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The term "comfort women" is a euphemism for girls and women forced to work in wartime Japanese military brothels.
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Okay, that's probably the worst and most grotesque euphemism to use when talking about knives, but bear with us.
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The term comfort women is a euphemism for girls and women forced to work in wartime Japanese military brothels.
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The title is interesting because, as you point out, the Hebrew word for 'feet' is a euphemism for penis.
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Speice believes they were using the term subconsciously, as a euphemism for behaving in a more stereotypically masculine way.
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Deary got bodied, jacked, or whatever other euphemism for Embarrassed In A Way That Involves Landing On Your Butt.
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And, if butts aren't your bag, you can even use the cherries as a euphemism for breasts and balls.
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Most delightfully of all, Rihanna revealed a genius euphemism for having sex: licking the envelope and sealing the deal.
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Next to the City Jail sat the Sugar House, a euphemism for what was in effect a torture chamber.
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This portable document format file is anything but portable and calling it a document is, at best, a euphemism.
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For the record, Former Pro Quarterback Jordan's got some major competition for the best euphemism for "Unemployed" this season.
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In the twenty-first century Department of Defense, however, there's an official euphemism for American troops' considerable killing ability.
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Increasingly, there are options to choose from beyond the euphemism and tragedy in classics by, say, Britten or Berg.
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Provincial leaders have even praised Huawei's contributions to the "Safe Xinjiang" initiative, a euphemism for the government's surveillance system.
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"Tuidao," or push down in Chinese, a euphemism for having sex, is the ultimate goal, he told the students.
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" Dissenting, however, was Justice Owen Roberts, who wrote the government's term "War Relocation Centers" was "a euphemism for concentration camps.
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Mr Fletcher tells us that "assisted dying" (the current campaigning euphemism) is about "empathy, compassion, choice, hope and common sense".
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Confession: It was only this year that I realized the gay euphemism "friend of Dorothy" was a Judy Garland reference.
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Also, there's the use of the word "pinga," which a hilarious euphemism for the leading man of the male anatomy.
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But it soon became clear that up to a quarter of them were "zero-balance accounts", a euphemism for "unused".
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Murtaza Abbasi, a PML-N lawmaker, said in parliament Khan was "brought here by aliens", a euphemism for the military.
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Not to be confused with a cooley (a euphemism for butts), it's a thin purée used as a sauce. Savarin
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After doing some useless hoeing (not a euphemism, sadly) with Ilian, Octavia realizes that she's no farmer, she's a warrior.
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" Another Hacker News commenter, kybernetyk, called out Newhouse's phrasing about "granular permissions" as a "nice euphemism for 'catch all' permissions… .
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The precise charges against Wang weren't immediately clear, but "violating party discipline" is a common euphemism in China for corruption.
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"There is no longer any valid euphemism to characterize this regime, other than dictatorship," Guaido told reporters earlier on Friday.
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I confess, I struggle a bit with the concept of "outsider" artists — it always feels to me like a euphemism.
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So, 20x over supply is a euphemism for we are about to ignore 95% of the demand for your stock.
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That, in turn, gives a whole new meaning to "let me die" (remember that "die" is a euphemism for orgasm).
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A train conductor or operator speaking of a death on the tracks without euphemism: We had never heard that before.
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The women's bodies depicted in canvasses by Peter Paul Rubens have long since made "Rubenesque" a euphemism for plus-size.
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Some have questioned whether the term "white nationalist" adequately describes these extremists, suggesting that it comes off as a euphemism.
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"Cockle chowder" definitely sounds like a euphemism for a weird sex thing, but it's actually a delicious, hearty seafood soup.
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They have "table service," which I discover is a euphemism for having to mix cranberry juice with overpriced vodka for yourself.
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There are no gatekeepers to say no, or to use the euphemism "taking a risk" to publish books about underrepresented groups.
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You don't use it a euphemism for a virtual -- say, surveillance from hot air balloons that are floating over the border.
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Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters Australia was officially notified when Yang was placed under "coercive measures" - a euphemism for detention.
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Signing With The Browns only sounds like a euphemism for "disappeared under suspicious circumstances," but it's close enough for football purposes.
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Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen finally hook up, and in so doing coin a new euphemism for sex ("We sail together").
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" Which, let's be real, is just a euphemism for "I don't think this is funny, please don't make me do it.
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But all kids, and especially those who face the loss of a loved one, deserve more than denial, euphemism or sugarcoating.
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To his critics, it is a euphemism for oppressive policing, particularly in minority neighborhoods, particularly against young black and Latino men.
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But some are already labeling the current Tokyo governor a populist, which is often a euphemism for a far-right politician.
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Congress must not endorse "workforce reshaping" — a euphemism for stripping the agency of scientists and endangering public health in the process.
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Rather than openly advocating weaker mileage and emissions rules, they claim they are seeking "flexibilities" -- their euphemism for pollution-producing loopholes.
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The minute-long commercial makes full use of the fact that broccoli is both a vegetable and a euphemism for cannabis.
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Second, why does the article use the euphemism "older," as if being old were too disgraceful to be spoken of directly?
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"Comfort women" is a euphemism for the girls and women - many of them Korean - forced into prostitution at Japanese military brothels.
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If so, I wondered, will the phrase "inner city" no longer be a euphemism for a place where poor people live?
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Sometimes, a state security officer would send a note inviting me to tea — what a perfect euphemism for an interrogation — at headquarters.
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The term ethnic cleansing itself was a euphemism used by the Ustaše in 1941 to describe their own intent to murder Serbs.
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When it becomes clear "hang out" is a euphemism for adulterous sex, James freaks out, because it seems like nothing actually happened.
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When I was a kid, I seem to recall that "creative" was a euphemism for spacey and messy and bad at math.
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Billions of rupees used to be lost each year through "leakage" of benefits—a euphemism for fraud in India's often corrupt bureaucracy.
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Many of them were "forcibly disappeared" - a euphemism for kidnapped and murdered - and hundreds of children were stolen from their imprisoned parents.
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Over recent months the talk of the country has been of "load-shedding": a euphemism for blackouts because Eskom cannot meet demand.
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The official line is that he was asked to "assist an investigation", a euphemism for helping the party net a bigger fish.
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There is friction between strict conservationists and those who support the "sustainable use" of wildlife—a euphemism for regulated hunting and trade.
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The CCDI expelled Wang from the Communist Party in July after investigations found serious violations of party discipline - a euphemism for corruption.
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Particularly thorny is the matter of "comfort women," a euphemism for girls and women forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels.
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BBW is a euphemism for "fat," but it also implies that not all "big" women may be "beautiful," according to societal standards.
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Opinion Columnist Before the word "resignation" became a euphemism for being fired, it connoted a sense of public integrity and personal honor.
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Luckily, girl glimpses boy's impressive landholdings (not a euphemism, not in this version anyway) and boy safeguards the honor of girl's family.
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"If they say yes, or any euphemism that can be construed as a yes, then ask them to put it in writing."
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So maybe this world of controlled euphemism, this half-public semi-privacy, can help me make sense of his character after all.
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Among members of Congress, "district work period" is the preferred euphemism, though many do spend much of their month visiting with constituents.
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"Oh he's good, we talk sometimes but not too much because he's in the garden," he wrote, using a euphemism for prison.
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They even have an in-game tournament called the Splatfest, which sounds more like a euphemism for teenage boys left home alone.
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The NCA did not immediately return an email seeking clarification on the term, which is sometimes used as a euphemism for hacking.
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The NCA did not immediately return an email seeking clarification on the term, which is sometimes used as a euphemism for hacking.
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Mike, for his part, characterizes that same plot twist with a euphemism, saying that he has a "history" with a certain character.
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That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, unstoppable virus, or Mr. Robot hack that takes everything down.
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CEO Oscar Munoz drew fire when he used the euphemism "re-accommodate " in a public statement to describe what happened to Dao.
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He referred to the camps as "vocational training centers" — a euphemism often used by Chinese officials to describe the prison-like camps.
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She snorted at the woowoo label, just as she—a congenital word snob—would have snorted at that woowoo euphemism, passed away.
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White nationalist The term white nationalism originated as a euphemism for white supremacy, said Segal of the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism.
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Save your energy for the dance numbers — and knocking back Businesswoman Specials (which, let's be real, is a euphemism for Happy Hour). 11.
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Furthermore, these gay characters are never portrayed as having an actual sexuality: there are winks and suggestions but nothing even close to euphemism.
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About a dozen "sick" PSUs, a euphemism the authorities use for often deeply dysfunctional firms, are in the process of being closed down.
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Drive past a police checkpoint a few miles away and you are in territory loyal to "the guys", a euphemism for Maoist guerrillas.
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They cater to men, providing them with high-end services that include hot towel facials and hand-detailing (a euphemism for a manicure).
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His continued use of the Nixonian euphemism "law and order" suggests, at the very least, that he's trying to have it both ways.
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The WWE has a "wellness policy" -- clearly a euphemism -- prohibiting the use of certain drugs, including performance enhancers, illegal substances and various meds.
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The Vermont senator regularly says that "establishment politics" -- a not-so-subtle euphemism for Clinton -- won't be able to solve the nation's problems.
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Afraid his paper would be rejected if he described the act outright, Dickerman coined the euphemism "Davian behaviour" for what was taking place.
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Obama's "transformation" is a euphemism for the deliberate crippling and humbling of a great nation he fraudulently considers racist, oppressive, venal and dysfunctional.
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I hope that Mr. Trump's asymmetric, weirdly brazen dishonesty has broken reporters of the bad habits of false equivalency, euphemism and forced balance.
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"Race realism," as you may already know, is yet another euphemism used by clay-brained internet fascists to try to disguise their bigotry.
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Some spoke about it vaguely, more closely tied to transition into womanhood; others were full of throbbing euphemism or way too many details.
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Instead of calling Trump's lie a lie, the Times used the euphemism "revived an inaccurate refrain" in a tweet that was widely mocked.
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A. If you use entrepreneurial as a euphemism for doing crazy things and causing a lot of trouble for many people, then yes.
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General Nakasone has argued that his cyberwarriors must be roaming cyberspace "persistently engaging" enemies — a euphemism for skirmishing with adversaries inside their networks.
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In one of his Twitter posts, he discussed being told to "drink tea," a popular Chinese euphemism for being questioned by security officials.
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And the first phase — "clearing" — was a euphemism for violence, repeatedly applied via small gunfights and supported by American artillery and air power.
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Democracy may die in darkness, as the slogan of a rival newspaper has it, but it also slips away under cover of euphemism.
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According to internal files, FlexiSpy has a sister company called Raysoft that deals with "lawful intercept sales," a common euphemism for government hacking.
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The highlight of every episode was when the couples were asked about "making whoopee" - the euphemism the show used for sex to mollify censors.
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" However, when asked what "cake by the ocean" means, Klum had to be filled in that it's a euphemism for "sex on the beach.
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So, it makes sense that doctors who see many patients with sex-related bladder infections would come up with a euphemism tied to honeymoons.
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What was once a fun euphemism for sex has now become a tired out expression that makes you audibly groan at its very utterance.
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The implication behind the euphemism there is: they are only supposed to be used for law enforcement and intelligence investigations against the bad guys.
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But did you know you can also use the site to learn how to roast a chicken (NOT a euphemism) and fix your car?
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But lurking behind the euphemism and the sometimes-arcane details is a big debate about inequality, political power, and the nature of economic growth.
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That sounds much like a euphemism for deaths of people with respiratory conditions relying on BiPAP/CPAP, ventilators, nebulizers, and oxygen concentrators, Roth says.
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" Aside from "tender age" shelters, the other euphemism used by government officials to describe these holding pens is "permanent unaccompanied alien children program facilities.
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Labeling something "racist," for instance, is seen as a political act, which leads some writers to opt for euphemism, shielding the audience from reality.
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"I'm sick and tired of hearing about women's issues, which is just a euphemism for abortion," Conway said, according to The Tampa Bay Times.
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In this example, euphemism served what most would regard as a noble purpose, in helping welfare go down more smoothly with the general populace.
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While this instinct may come from a good place, it often lands in a bad one, the treacly territory of euphemism and happy talk.
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Boko Haram fighters decided not to "marry" her, a euphemism for the rapes the group commits, because she already had a husband and children.
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It also cited 46 cases of new deposit accounts opened for "anti-social elements", a Japanese euphemism for organized crime members and their associates.
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He was suspected of "grave violations of discipline" — a euphemism covering graft, bribetaking and other abuses of power — the commission said on its website.
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With this latest tirade, Trump hasn't only indulged his racism, he has also usefully — if unintentionally — stripped some racial euphemism from the public discourse.
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With this latest tirade, Trump hasn't only indulged his racism, he has also usefully — if unintentionally — stripped some racial euphemism from the public discourse.
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This made me reflect on where else "cultural difference" has been a euphemism under which bias, slavery and genocide have all had their ways.
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When Mr. Hinshaw asked if she needed help, she invited him to come over but wondered if "help" was a euphemism for booty call.
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Could this be a real thing, I wondered, or just a fancy euphemism for introverted, sensitive person who'd rather Netflix-and-couch than party?
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If you're at all familiar with what satellite phones looked like in the early 90s, describing them as "mobile" is at best a humorous euphemism.
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Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said that Australia was officially notified after Yang was placed under "coercive measures" - a euphemism for detention - in Beijing.
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Xinhua said the party had confirmed previous decisions to expel them after endorsing a report into their "serious discipline violations", the usual euphemism for corruption.
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"'Extreme vetting' is just a euphemism for discriminating against Muslims," said Anthony Romero, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union in a statement.
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Li Jia, Zhuhai's Communist Party chief, is suspected of "serious discipline breaches", the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said, using the usual euphemism for corruption.
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Tonight we try a new vegan restaurant nearby ($25, which we split) and make cinnamon rolls together (not not a euphemism) when we get home.
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It alludes to the medical euphemism of "homosexual cancer" when talking about AIDS and depicts the episodes of helplessness that Prior feels without a cure.
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They cheered in relief as Planned Parenthood Action Fund president Cecile Richards said the word "abortion" in a primetime convention broadcast, without euphemism or apology.
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Iran officials say five people were convicted and sentenced for "cooperating with Iran's enemies," a government euphemism that usually implies cooperating with the United States.
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It's tough to algorithmically flag their comments — they could be a subtweet of a subtweet, a thinly veiled historical reference, a euphemism with no keywords.
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"Conversation," often with "honest" or "adult" tacked on to it, has become the preferred euphemism of those who seek to holler their opinions at you.
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Steve Jobs has a mythic following, and in many circles, the idea of selling sugar water is a euphemism for spending time doing something meaningless.
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Poor Steve is so inexperienced with dating and relationships that he thinks "fondue" is a sex euphemism and legitimately asks Peggy about it in conversation.
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Wang Jianhua is suspected of "severe disciplinary violations", the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said in a brief statement, using its normal euphemism for corruption.
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The same temptation can occur in less momentous deflations, whenever insincerity peeks from under a euphemism—whenever the "guest" turns out to be a customer.
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He was widely condemned in 2018 after invoking an infamous Nazi euphemism and calling for a "final solution" to end the immigration problem in Australia.
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The ruling Communist Party's top anti-graft watchdog said on Tuesday that Wang Bao'an was "suspected of serious violation of discipline", a euphemism for corruption.
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From the US, you can use the pictures to see what the euphemism "gentrification" actually means: violent displacement here finances and enables violent displacement there.
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The problem is that the world of "lawful intercept" (that's the euphemism used by governments and companies that live in that world) is lightly regulated.
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Maybe when populists talk about restoring sovereignty and national identity, it's not just a euphemism for anti-refugee sentiment (although such sentiment is indeed rife).
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United States (1913), which upheld a law making it a crime to transport a woman across state lines "for immoral purposes" (a euphemism for prostitution).
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The term comfort women is a Japanese euphemism for women, many of them Korean, who were forced to work in Japan's World War Two brothels.
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The article discussed censorship, dictatorship, and the use of the term "cultural difference" as a euphemism to prejudice and xenophobia in Germany, China, and elsewhere.
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Boiled peanuts share top billing with "Carolina caviar," the euphemism of choice for pimento-cheese spread, which comes with a half sleeve of Ritz crackers.
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Without theme entries to "excuse" possible deficiencies in the grid, there is little tolerance for "glue" (or whatever your preferred euphemism is) for poor entries.
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That, and a handful of people who showed them enough love and an escape route from places where "family dysfunction" is too kind a euphemism.
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But next on the list, if it were a university, would be Vacated — the euphemism given to appearances later wiped from the record by scandal.
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President Donald Trump enjoys long stretches of "executive time" — a White House euphemism for free time — and doesn't start his work days until 11 a.m.
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This is a euphemism for students whose families did not participate at the appropriate times in the application process, or were unsatisfied with their initial assignment.
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Tens of thousands of "mass incidents" - the usual euphemism for protests - occur each year in China, triggered by corruption, pollution, illegal land grabs and other grievances.
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Many of these people declined to be identified because they were familiar with or involved in "re-packaged" loan applications, the industry euphemism for these frauds.
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The term "comfort women" has often been used by Japan as a euphemism for all the women forced into sex work in the region during WWII.
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In enclaves that are not faced with the wreckage of widespread addiction, "crack" has become a cute euphemism for anything ya just can't get enough of.
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"Resettlement has become a euphemism for state-sponsored segregation and dispossession of the urban poor," said Shivani Chaudhry, executive director of Housing and Land Rights Network.
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The term "comfort women" is a euphemism for girls and women, from South Korea, China, the Philippines and elsewhere, forced to work in Japanese military brothels.
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Also, "pussy" has a diminutive feel to it, a cutesy and palatable euphemism for the reproductive organs, whose freedoms Trump and Co. wish radically to curtail.
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It is equally foolish for those who believe that enhanced interrogation is a misleading euphemism for torture to equate these polices with that of Nazi Germany.
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" As the Cut points out, "luxurious" might be a euphemism — in a translation by CNN, Ratelband says, "When I'm 49 with [this face], then I'm rammed.
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Under a 13 deal, Japan apologized to the "comfort women" — Japan's euphemism for Asian women, many of them Korean, forced to work in its wartime brothels.
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The phenomenon that swept Trump into office was dubbed "economic anxiety," a term that has become a winking euphemism for media timidity about addressing white racism.
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And so we default to being passive, accepting, quiet, and generally just "going with the flow" (which is usually just a euphemism for being a doormat).
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"The soccer team" — according to the criminal complaint filed against Hubbard and two other men in Florida on Friday — is a euphemism for the Islamic State.
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A recent effort to provide consulting to companies on their workspaces, which typically goes under the tiresome tech euphemism called a "pivot," also did not gel.
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The president was slated for more than nine hours of "Executive Time," a euphemism for the unstructured time Trump spends tweeting, phoning friends and watching television.
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Critics said the plan to post security personnel near an Oslo school in case of assaults by newly arrived refugees was an ugly euphemism for intolerance.
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The strategy, which he defines as "just a euphemism for the politics of white identity," is a key to understanding why Mr. Gillespie lost the governorship.
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Check out this video at minute 8:05 or so: Thereby hangs a tale (or a "tail," which is a euphemism for, duh, a penis), indeed.
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" A Reuters report tells us that in some parts of the country, "the word 'Democrat' is often a euphemism for out-of-touch, condescending coastal elites.
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In American movies — and maybe not only there — the idea of luck often functions as a euphemism for, and an antidote to, the effects of class.
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Montaigne was witnessing the beginning of the parallel paper universe of the French bureaucratic state, where euphemism allows interest, and sometimes evil, to take its course.
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According to a brief statement by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), Yang is suspected of serious breaches of discipline, a common euphemism for corruption.
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In a recent case, the FBI used a network investigative technique (NIT)—the agency's euphemism for a hacking tool—to identify visitors of child pornography site Playpen.
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They credit the fall to "tactical contact", a euphemism for ramming, as well as innovations like slim motorbikes for chases on narrow streets and spray-tagging bikes.
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Rather than labeling the item as "disputed" or some other tentative euphemism as it has in the past, Facebook is now going to call fake news fake.
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Other times, alone on a dock, as the sun slowly sets in the background, their troubles temporarily gone: Friendship is a euphemism for love in Kingdom Hearts.
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Stormy Daniels is flaunting her multitasking, and that's not a euphemism -- she was busy stripping in Detroit Tuesday night, while still keeping the pressure on President Trump.
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Révérien Ndikuriyo, the president of the Senate, has talked on the radio about "spraying cockroaches" with bullets and "starting work", a euphemism for killing used in Rwanda.
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The acting Communist Party chief of Tianjin, a port in northern China, was dismissed for "serious violation of party discipline", which is often a euphemism for corruption.
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In a presentation thick with euphemism—but, they promise, based in science—they detail their techniques, including slaps, cramped confinement, sleep deprivation, mock burials, waterboarding, and more.
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The "head" is a euphemism for a toilet and the British version, signaled in the clue by the use of the name "Hogwarts," would be a LOO.
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In fact, the Associated Press just released a statement claiming they will no longer use the term "alt-right" because it is a euphemism for racist discourse.
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Instead, they have fallen back on the very practice that enabled abusive priests to thrive: dealing with sexual conflict through a blend of prudery, euphemism, and evasion.
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" Australian leaders across the political spectrum condemned Senator Fraser Anning, who invoked a Nazi euphemism for genocide by calling for a "final solution to the immigration problem.
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"We're not sure what the off-ramping process will look like," said Zachary Libow, 31, using a euphemism for job loss that might make a businessman proud.
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Even a young Biden was prone to "gaffes," a political-journalism euphemism that encompasses everything from verbal flubs to exaggerating one's personal history to expressions of prejudice.
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It's the in-between stuff—the far-right euphemism, the radicalization that doesn't realize it's been radicalized, the provocation for provocation's sake—that poses the greatest challenge.
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The flavor's title, of course, comes from the once-popular phrase "Netflix and chill," which is essentially a euphemism for sex with Netflix on in the background.
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First Words Any time we're listening to a politician speak, it really helps to be fluent in politics: There's so much euphemism, so much parrying and doublespeak.
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"Walk Me Home" The lyrics to this song were a big ol' euphemism for sex (weren't all songs from the early 2000s?) but none of us cared.
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Activists say white nationalism is little more than a euphemism for white supremacy that attempts to distance itself from traditional hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan.
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The judge agreed, saying the warrant was originally issued without jurisdiction, invalidating the evidence gathered by the FBI's network investigative technique, or NIT—the feds' euphemism for hacking.
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Then the streaming service practically killed the cable box, so thoroughly transforming TV viewers into binge-watchers that "Netflix and chill" became a half-hearted euphemism for sex.
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The supernatural series that was met with critical acclaim used mythical beings as a euphemism for the experiences of marginalized groups and made us question our own humanity.
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Even the word "snack" -- once thought of as a healthy, energizing source of calories for children -- can seem like a euphemism for an IV sugar solution these days.
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Rubio asks if Comey and Trump agreed that it would be great if the "cloud" over the White House (a euphemism for the Russia investigation) could be lifted.
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I guess the first time I learned about that euphemism was when I read [Jane Schaberg's] The Illegitimacy of Jesus, which was an important book for Mary Wept.
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"The 'strategic patience' touted by this administration is a ridiculous euphemism for passivity and paralysis that invites further aggressive actions by Russia and other international pariahs," Nunes added.
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Veep "Only in Washington — or, possibly, some corners of Manhattan's financial district — would the term 'banking task force' be used as a euphemism for sex," writes Jen Chaney.
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"Mission Control would then have to — to use their euphemism — 'close down communication,' and the men would have to either starve to death or commit suicide," Safire said.
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What he fails to mention is that the idea of nationalized medicine — which is what he is proposing, using a euphemism — will in fact not be paid for.
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Rick Smith is "retiring," as the corporate euphemism goes, after failing to prevent a massive cyber attack and fumbling the response – and with little financial penalty to boot.
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Rick Smith is "retiring," as the corporate euphemism goes, after failing to prevent a massive cyber attack and fumbling the response - and with little financial penalty to boot.
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"The cause of the accident is being investigated, and a suspect has already been placed under mandatory measures," said the government's news release, using a euphemism for detention.
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But she knows firsthand how the word "strong" can be a euphemism for "too big," and how the goal of running fast is consistently equated with weight loss.
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Not long after, government agents took him away for what they described as a "vacation" — a euphemism in China for an enforced disappearance, according to The Associated Press.
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Trump says he likes the flexibility of acting officials, but that seems to be a euphemism for avoiding oversight and the Senate's constitutional role of advice and consent.
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Nonetheless, enough parents plug their ears that the World Health Organization lists "vaccine hesitancy" — a euphemism if ever I heard one — among 10 global health threats in 2019.
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Thailand is a place where journalists, civic activists, lawyers, and others are summoned to a military base for "attitude adjustment," as the well-known euphemism would have it.
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"i didn't mean to offend by expressing that [euphemism for breasts] should be calm, i know injustices are frustrating and it's easy to get worked up," she tweeted.
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As one of many Democrats hoping to stop the Senate health care bill, she has chafed at the euphemism that Americans would "lose" their coverage under the plan.
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"If your only agenda is negative — negative's a euphemism — crazy — based on lies, based on hoaxes, this is the nominee you get," Obama said about the Republican leaders.
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We've had a couple months now of stories about sexual harassment, abuse, "sexual misconduct" is a new weird euphemism for masturbating in front of women at a club.
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And I still have to relive the humiliation every time I tell the story about choking on meat on Fire Island, and then explain it's not a euphemism.
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He said his clients want to bring someone home in order to "cope" with their parents' questioning, and the service isn't a euphemism for sexual services or the like.
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Despite laws to end the practice of manual scavenging, a euphemism for clearing faeces from dry toilets and open drains by hand, it is prevalent in many Indian states.
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And the bible says in Job that we are transported to heaven by angels to Abraham&aposs bosom, and that&aposs another euphemism in the bible for heaven itself.
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Before we started talking, you were talking about what you were doing prior to this, which was scouting out a gaming house in Williamsburg, which is not a euphemism.
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During this brief period, the FBI deployed a network investigative technique (NIT)—the agency's euphemism for a hacking tool—to identify users who visited specific threads of the site.
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That may have been because the Harvey-inspired hashtag #Ballogize has caught on as a euphemism for messing something up, rather than a comment on T-Mobile, Amobee suggested.
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Fast-fashion brands copy (though the industry prefers the euphemism "interpret") designers' styles, often stocking look-alikes in their shops before designers' own clothes make it to department stores.
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After she whisks Ben away from his boring opening speech to give him a hard flossing — not a euphemism — we notice a brownish spot on his left front tooth.
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About 900 died in police operations and the rest authorities say were "deaths under investigation", a term human rights activists say is a euphemism for vigilante and extrajudicial killings.
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" But in an aside at a rally in Iowa last week, Trump gave explicit shape to this euphemism by telling the audience, "I said, 'Add some money to it.
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By this, he meant, say, a band in T-shirts, looking tough, standing in the back of a warehouse—authenticity as a euphemism for the absence of an idea.
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Just a few weeks after New Girl gave me fresh hope, Limitless used a brief but potent Bollywood-based "dance" debacle as a euphemism for two characters having sex.
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In a brief statement, the party's corruption-busting Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said that Lu Wei was suspected of serious discipline breaches, using a common euphemism for graft.
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Yang Luyu was being investigated for "suspected serious disciplinary violations", a euphemism commonly used for corruption, the ruling Communist Party's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said in a statement.
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That is why many of these spaces are called "rec rooms," a euphemism for space that is not habitable, even if the owners use the windowless area for bedrooms.
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Castro called what followed the "Special Period," an ironic euphemism for massive food and fuel shortages and a rationing so drastic that it physically altered the Cuban people forever.
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For that show, he told a five-minute story about an Englishwoman traveling in Switzerland and looking for the W.C., a British euphemism for a water closet or toilet.
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But we hope these five stories provide fresh insights and an open dialogue about a part of the human experience that's too often shrouded in mystery, misinformation, and euphemism.
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But in the ideological world inhabited by Mr. Price, House Speaker Paul Ryan and many other Republicans, choice is often a euphemism for scrapping sensible regulations that protect people.
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While the casting process has been professionalized for years, concerns about the "casting couch" — a euphemism for demanding sex in exchange for a job — are as old as Hollywood.
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The retailer is also promoting a limited-edition "euphemism" range of lubricants, based on the phrases people sometimes use to describe sex, such as "Getting Lucky" and "Hanky Panky."
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"Undocumented is the term preferred by many immigrants and their advocates, but it has a flavor of euphemism and should be used with caution outside quotation," the guide states.
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Gao is suspected of "serious discipline breaches", the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said in a brief statement, using its usual euphemism for graft but providing no other details.
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After all, retirement in tennis has long been a euphemism for a sabbatical, and one of Murray's peers who has dealt with pain offered words of encouragement on Friday.
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The party announced last Monday that he was under investigation for violations of "discipline" — usually a euphemism for corruption — and Mr. Sun has since been pilloried in official media.
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The support drops to 65 percent if the phrase "doctor-assisted suicide" is used instead of "end a patient's life" — yet another case of the American preference for euphemism.
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Why not refuse to adopt the terminology of "alt-right" and "white nationalist" and instead use a label that we can all understand and that ultra-effectively resists euphemism?
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In a brief statement, the party's graft-busting Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said Huang Xingguo, 61, was suspected of "serious discipline breaches", using the party's normal euphemism for corruption.
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They knew that all strength is partly a pose: real strength comes not through force, which the anthropologist David Graeber reminds us is often a euphemism for violence, but technique.
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His death closes a brutal chapter in Argentina's history, during which rights groups say military rule was responsible for "disappearing" - a euphemism for kidnapping and murdering opponents - some 30,20003 people.
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Yet, at the same time, the Home Secretary Theresa May has repeatedly rejected claims domestic security agencies are engaged in mass surveillance of citizens — preferring the euphemism term 'bulk collection'.
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Corinne's charmingly boisterous dad, who marinates his own olives (I promise that's not any kind of euphemism), decides he's OK with the thought of his daughter getting engaged to Nick.
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The incident drew scorn on Twitter and other social media, especially when Munoz used the euphemism "re-accomodate " in a public statement to describe the customers booted from the flight.
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An Australian lawmaker called for a "final solution" to end the immigration problem in his country on Tuesday, invoking an infamous Nazi euphemism for genocide, The New York Times reported.
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Research, in this case, being a euphemism for a five-second google that imparted miles of interesting trivia relating to toupee, topple, toast, some old dice game … words are great.
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The "Statue of a Girl Of Peace" symbolizes the "comfort women", a euphemism referring to women, many of them Korean, forced into the brothels before and during World War Two.
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After I confirmed he was not using the term "hang out" as some sort of euphemism for sex, we met up at a public space and had a few drinks.
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The picturesque mountains around Gilgit-Baltistan are vulnerable to influence from all three, often in the shape of "agencies," a local euphemism for informants and spies, both foreign and domestic.
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Reminders of Japan's occupation are inflammatory for both sides, including the issue of "comfort women", a Japanese euphemism for women, many of them Korean, forced into Japan's wartime military brothels.
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Depending on the outcome, he or she may be sent for "restorative justice" — a benign euphemism for a modern-day reeducation camp — to atone for the thought crime in question.
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"As a leading party cadre, Xia had a weak concept of discipline and violated party regulations," it said in a statement on its website, employing the usual euphemism for graft.
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Mr. Johnson insists Britain will complete a deal with Europe by the end of this year — a stance that experts assume will give way to a euphemism for an extension.
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She has given the police unheard-of license to make arrests in hospitals and bully patients, and to mistreat — my euphemism this time — protesters and reporters at the front lines.
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Groups began to predicate entire political identities on what was "important" versus what was a "distraction," and "distraction" became a euphemism for everything outside the speaker's own most fervent aims.
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How "rural America" became a euphemism for "white America" Communities of color in general have been marginalized from policymaking and from media depictions, so that's obviously part of the story.
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His name, along with Yo-Yo Ma's, became a euphemism on Seinfeld, while he was one of the few guests to distinguish himself on Sacha Baron Cohen's Da Ali G Show.
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Beyond the confusion of using the commonly-known penis euphemism "the D" to mean vitamin D, the ads also pose strange and somewhat unintelligible questions like: Do you do the D?
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities are investigating the mayor of provincial capital Hefei on suspicion of serious discipline violations, state-owned Xinhua reported on Sunday, using the euphemism generally applied to graft.
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Unscrupulous carriers openly advertise their services to those looking to make "dialer/short duration termination calls"—the jargony euphemism for robocalls—and databases of consumer phone numbers are easy to buy.
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Throughout the '80s, '90s, well into the 21st century, the Republican Party stood for "traditional family values," a euphemism used to disguise an anti-queer, anti-trans, anti-human rights agenda.
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Judicial sources said any defendant accused of "debauchery" or "sexual deviancy", a euphemism for homosexuality in Egypt, is subjected to a medical examination based on an order from the Public Prosecutor.
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It's also the first sentence in the Anti Defamation League (ADL) entry on white nationalism: White nationalism is a term that originated among white supremacists as a euphemism for white supremacy.
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These days, he bristles at the term "corporate raider," favoring the euphemism "activist investor," but the reality is that when Icahn targets a company the response from management is generally terror.
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Comfort women is a euphemism for those, many of them Korean, forced to work in Japan's World War Two brothels and is a highly emotional topic for people of both countries.
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"Placement," is also a euphemism, as nearly 1,500 children have been shunted into a converted Walmart, while plans are afoot to construct a tent city for hundreds more in West Texas.
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Cuban, Iranian and even Turkish politicians have begun pushing "information sovereignty," a euphemism for replacing services provided by western internet companies with their own more limited but easier to control products.
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This routine continued, with Marcos calling for refrescos—the word means "soft drinks," and he found the euphemism hilarious—and Eduardo obligingly pulling off the highway, another five or six times.
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And last week, Brigadier-General Vicente Antonio Hernandez, who heads the National Guard's operations in Mexico's southern states, said 20,000 migrants had been "rescued" since May 17, a euphemism for detained.
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Their initial accounts echoed those of captives who have previously escaped or been rescued: of being offered a choice between becoming "wives" of Boko Haram fighters — a disgusting euphemism — or slaves.
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He scraped together his entry fees by crowdfunding from bass fishing clubs and saved money by sleeping in the "Tundra Suites" — his euphemism for the back of his Toyota Tundra pickup.
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"The less hard-core white supremacists stopped using any term for themselves, but the more hard-core white supremacists started using 'white nationalism' as a euphemism for 'white supremacy,'" he said.
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For many who work for these organizations — or who vote for candidates endorsed by them — being "pro-life, pro-family" is not a euphemism for opposing abortion and same-sex marriage.
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" Typically, he hears this when it's a euphemism for the harsher idea that some people aren't smart enough for college, something that "is usually heard anywhere black and brown people live.
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Perhaps, as the year progresses and the stakes get real, he may accept some sort of politically palatable euphemism for an extension, allowing trade to continue unhindered while talks go on.
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Moon also said his government would continue working toward recovering the honor and dignity of former "comfort women", a euphemism for girls and women forced to work in Japan's wartime brothels.
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Because, if you are, then maybe we can at last rethink the policy of euphemism, obfuscation, denial and semantic yoga that typified the Obama administration's discussions of another form of terrorism.
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Dong Ronghua, 64, is suspected of "serious discipline breaches", the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said in a brief statement, using its usual euphemism for graft but providing no further details.
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In 85033 he was hospitalized for 'battle fatigue' — often a euphemism for a breakdown — and after recovering he stayed on in Europe past the end of the war, chasing Nazi functionaries.
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"In this part of the world, socialism has been a euphemism for Marxist economic policies, which have been synonymous with economic failures, social repression and mass out-migration of people," Reich said.
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It's been fun and fashionable to talk about the death of publishing, and certainly publishing has had "exciting times," I think that's the euphemism we want to use, over the last decade.
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Cui Jian, vice president of the Baosteel Group, the parent of Baoshan Iron and Steel, was placed under investigation in March 2015 on suspicion of "serious disciplinary violations," a euphemism for graft.
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The use of the phrase "N-word" was created as a euphemism, and the norm, with the intention of providing an acceptable replacement and moving people away from using the specific word.
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Last month, Mattel introduced a new "curvy" Barbie — "curvy" being the only flattering euphemism for a woman who's "a little bit fat"; "fat Barbie" obviously would have been the kiss of death.
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One room features the Davis family Bible, which was found by a Northern soldier during the "war between the states" (a euphemism for the civil war), and later returned to the family.
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The private forecasting company has spent years pushing the envelope (a euphemism for "sparking the ire of the meteorological community") by issuing longer-term forecasts than anyone else is in the game.
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I-1631, the initiative on Washington's ballot this year, would charge a fee for carbon pollution ("fee" is not just a clever euphemism for tax; it's actually a fee under state law).
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But seriously in the Motherboard article on Variety Jones it keeps saying "a source independently gained access to," where "a source independently gained access to" is probably a euphemism for illegal hacking.
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In 2014, the U.N. Human Rights Committee asked Tokyo to clarify the "comfort women" euphemism, with an independent expert on the panel calling for it to be replaced with "enforced sex slaves".
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" In this instance, "the best information I had" is a euphemism for "the President of the United States didn't tell me the whole truth and then I went out and repeated it.
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They also note that despite the clichés of romance novels as euphemism-laden exercises in restraint, no naughty words are really off limits anymore, even for the stuff being sold in Walmart.
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"Trump famously likes to make the quiet part loud," Tim Miller, a former Jeb Bush Republican adviser, told me in the runup to the 2018 midterms — a euphemism for Trump's explicit racism.
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For God's sake, a new team in Colorado Springs is likely going to be named the Rocky Mountain Oysters, which, if you're unfamiliar, is a euphemism for cow testicles that people eat.
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In 2014, the U.N. Human Rights Committee requested Tokyo to clarify the "comfort women" euphemism, with an independent expert on the panel calling for it to be replaced with "enforced sex slaves".
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On national security, Mr. Trump's aides said the president would make his case for a bigger military, more secure borders and fair trade, which critics say is a euphemism for protectionist policies.
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While he is not the only member of Congress to pursue an extramarital affair, he is almost certainly the first to turn "hiking the Appalachian Trail" into a euphemism for all time.
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While Trump's tropes involved Mexicans and Muslims and that tired euphemism of disastrous inner cities, Reagan used the "welfare queen" scare, as far back as his unsuccessful bid for president in 1976.
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María Martín (no relation to Oswaldo) is the single staff member in Todos Santos of CONAMIGUA , a Guatemalan government agency that works with migrants and retornados , a local euphemism for the deported.
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Her manners are direct and democratic, in contrast with the fussy decorum of the older generation, and she speaks frankly about money, sex and other matters generally veiled by discretion and euphemism.
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Much as Kach did, Otzma Yehudit's platform calls for annexing the occupied territories, rejecting a Palestinian state, expelling "enemies" of Israel — a euphemism for Arabs — and taking "ownership" of the Temple Mount.
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Holocaust denial, racist stereotyping, the casual usage of Nazi terminology, talk of Zionist conspiracies and the deployment of the word "Zionist" as a euphemism for Jew are now common among his supporters.
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The term "sharing economy" is a euphemism for the digital blurring of the line between the professional and private realm, and Happy is just the latest example of this process getting evermore personal.
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The scooters first arrived in Austin last April when the city declared itself a hub for experimentation with "micromobility," a buzzwordy euphemism for rentable bikes and scooters designed to take you short distances.
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Because whether or not you consider yourself skilled in the area of dialing the rotary phone, shakin' the bacon, or whatever euphemism you prefer, you probably didn't start out as a masturbatory pro.
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Hussaini said the Iraqi resistance forces, a euphemism for Iran-backed Shi'ite militias, would take part in the battle against Islamic State in Syria's Albu Kamal because it borders Iraq, Al-Mayadin reported.
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But this is a deliberate strategy by surveillance capitalists, who need people to be unaware for data vacuuming to work best — "all obfuscated and covered in euphemism," she told me in an email.
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The party's corruption watchdog said Wang, who was also the vice-chairman and executive director of People's Insurance, had been expelled from the party for "serious discipline violations," the usual euphemism for corruption.
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The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) said late on Friday it was investigating Lu Yongjie, Bright's chairman until the end of 2015, for suspected "serious discipline violation", a common euphemism for corruption.
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In the 1970s, as the U.S. struggled through a deep recession, shopkeepers were constantly on the watch for stretched consumers looking to employ the so-called "five-finger discount," a euphemism for shoplifting.
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The Co-op began hiring paid employees in the eighties; today, there are upward of seventy "area coördinators"—the egalitarian euphemism for staff—plus half a dozen "general coördinators," or managers, like Holtz.
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Waldman specializes in rococo Broadway-style upstage moves and Sterling does his thunderous best to apply his signature, usually through some pun-powered compound euphemism, to any moment large enough to contain it.
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" This is typically understood as a euphemism for sexual intercourse, so "you shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister" would mean something like "do not have sex with your father's sister.
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" She dislikes the euphemism "the change" for menopause because it is "a bland word that holds none of the distress and despair of endless hot flashes, depression, brain fog and eradication of libido.
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Her great-grandmother, forced into training as a "domestic" — a euphemism for something more akin to slavery — was "brutally abused, like a lot of Aboriginal women" and died in a prisonlike psychiatric asylum.
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He and others knew that Renard was even then continuing his "missions" — a euphemism he uses to describe the federation's attempts to discover, and persuade, new players with Moroccan heritage to sign on.
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Delbanco highlights the especially tortured syntax of the fugitive slave clause (Article 4, Section 2, Clause 3) to show how the founding document, "so filled with euphemism and circumlocution," was littered with bombshells.
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Our persistent inability to say more — to name what happened, without euphemism or cliché — suggests that our difficulty may be less with the problems themselves than with the complicated justice they call for.
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Some Republicans have taken care to avoid using Mr. Trump's name even as they back away from his remarks, using "we" as a sort of euphemism for the president they have in mind.
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"I wish everyone was as perfect as you, Pete, but let me tell you what it's like to be in the arena," Ms. Klobuchar replied, using her favorite euphemism for experience in Washington.
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In employing the euphemism "targeted killing" for a member of a sovereign state, the Trump administration has exposed the faulty assumptions and dangerous legacy posed by the war on terror's targeted killing policy.
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Moore urged the pastors to stand firm in defense of religious freedom, arguing that Baptists should "reclaim" the language of "separation of church and state," which many evangelicals consider a euphemism for secularization.
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Let's start with the basics: Medicare for All is a euphemism for single-payer health care, where the government would control most facets of health care and pay for it with higher taxes.
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Only after the asphalt had been ripped out almost three years ago did Ms. Amoura and her neighbors learn that their street had been "reclaimed," Omaha City Hall's euphemism for unpaving a road.
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In a separate statement, the discipline commission said that a senior official at the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps had been put under investigation for suspected "serious discipline violations", the usual euphemism for graft.
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The investigation is also believed to be related to disgraced former vice-minister of state security Ma Jian, who came under suspicion of violating Communist Party discipline – a euphemism for corruption – earlier that year.
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A closed IPO window is really a euphemism for "poor market conditions" — and, according to public market and IPO practitioners, current market conditions are poor, which has led to a historically weak IPO market.
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Yang was taken to Beijing, where China has said the city's State Security Bureau is holding him under "coercive measures", a euphemism for detention, while he is investigated on suspicion of "endangering state security".
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The party also remains wary of what it terms "mass incidents", a euphemism for protests, of which there are thousands every year in China, over everything from illegal land seizures and pollution to corruption.
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It's the same thing with a slate of on-demand or home-rental tech, the impact of which are too often shrugged off as "negative externalities," which is a great euphemism for terrible things.
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"This time, it's not some ordinary threat it is trying to root out, but a threat to 'national security,' which is the Kremlin's euphemism for 'the stability of the present political regime,'" he writes.
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In case you're wondering if this is a bunch of hooey—"flu-like symptoms" are very often used as a euphemism for "got hammered the night before"—the hotel has copped to the issue.
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Ghost and his high school sweetheart from Queens, Angela Valdes (Lela Loren), often refer to their youth as "the old days," a romantic euphemism for whatever working-class struggles they and their families endured.
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He was taken to Beijing, where China has said the city's State Security Bureau is holding him under "coercive measures", a euphemism for detention, as he is investigated on suspicion of "endangering state security".
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"They know their routes, they know where to pick their victims up, and where to drop them off—or whatever euphemism you want to use—for when they're finished with them," Palozzolo told VICE.
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The words essentialize Japaneseness as an inherent, reflexive set of behaviors, especially in response to atrocity and trauma, and especially when invoked, in the United States, as a kind of euphemism for model minority.
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"Hollywood Rams" soon emerged as a euphemism for the Rams' off-the-field pursuits and as an explanation for why the vaunted teams of the late 1940s and 50s only won one NFL championship.
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When it came time to play, Stewart approached my father and me and said, "I need to wet my reed," whereupon my father, thinking it was a euphemism, promptly directed him to the bathroom.
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Some posts, he explained, are thinly veiled solicitations for pornography or prostitution, including one message he reported to the police the other day for using what he said was a euphemism for selling sex.
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In Beijing, many scavengers who do this work have fallen victim to an aggressive government campaign to "improve the quality of the city's population," a euphemism for driving out migrant workers from the countryside.
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Daily Harvest offers smoothies, chia parfaits, soups, and more recently, harvest bowls to its health-conscious subscribers, and while healthy is often a euphemism for bland, that's certainly not the case with Daily Harvest.
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Our daughter goes to bed, and then D. and I [I have read enough MD comment sections to know there is no acceptable way to say it, so insert your euphemism of choice here].
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Without mitigation, if we just let climate change get worse and worse, adaptation is only going to look uglier and uglier, more and more of a euphemism for abandoning poor people to their suffering.
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So euphemism is where you use falsely nice words to put a happy face on something awful, and dysphemism would be taking something perfectly benign and choosing words that make everybody feel like it's horrible.
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Liu Beixian, editor-in-chief of the China News Service until retiring in February 2015, was suspected of "serious discipline breaches", a euphemism for graft, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said in a statement.
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The term "comfort women" is a wartime euphemism translated from Japanese for the women, many from Korea, who were forced into prostitution and sexually abused at Japanese military brothels before and during World War Two.
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Cai Xiyou, president of Sinochem Group, the Chinese energy and chemicals conglomerates, has been put under investigation for serious discipline violations, China's main anti-corruption agency said on Saturday, using the usual euphemism for graft.
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In 203 the agency announced that Kennedy Space Center, the launch site for the Apollo and Shuttle missions, would become a "multi-user spaceport," a euphemism for leasing many of its facilities to private contractors.
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Kim was among the two dozen known surviving South Korean "comfort women", a Japanese euphemism for women who were forced into prostitution and sexually abused at Japanese military brothels before and during World War Two.
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China's anti-corruption watchdog said on Tuesday it is investigating Huarong Chairman Lai Xiaomin for suspected "serious discipline violations", a euphemism for graft, the latest in a string of probes into high-profile financial executives.
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Breaking news reporting, if it is not merely a euphemism for aggregating news at lightning speed, requires an investment in both reporters and quality, both of which cost money that Tronc is unwilling to spend.
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True, this perspective doesn't entirely explain why its coverage of the president regularly retreats into misleading euphemism, or treats him with a level of saucer-eyed credulity its top reporters know he has never earned.
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"I want the NYT to tell me in plain language and not use a euphemism like 'stretches the truth' when the truth has not been 'stretched' but has been totally and clearly broken," he wrote.
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The term "Barbecue Becky" was an amalgamation of the setting the incident took place at and "Becky," a term that has long been used in African American vernacular as a euphemism for a white woman.
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One year before the regulations went into effect, a debtor died in the basement of Citibank's Jakarta headquarters during what's been described as a "harsh interrogation," a term widely seen as a euphemism for torture.
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Everything about the Homecoming center is bland and minimalist — "hip but masculine," Colin calls the décor — and "Homecoming" understands that anonymous spaces, euphemism and depersonalized corporate-speak can be more terrifying than any jump scare.
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The tactic is referred to as "knocking on the roof," a euphemism for hitting a building with loud but not terribly destructive munitions before switching to the powerful missiles or bombs meant to level it.
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"When that point of light starts shedding things to the left, right, bottom, it's clear it had an event," says Gerard van Belle, an astronomer at Lowell Observatory in Arizona, using another favorite aerospace euphemism.
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In June, authorities announced an investigation over serious discipline violations, a euphemism for corruption, into Alimjan Maimaitiming, 56, a former secretary general in the government of Xinjiang, home to many of China's ethnic Muslim Uighurs.
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That means showing your papers (passport, visa, yellow-fever certificate), which generally means officials finding problems with them, which means finding a solution, which means giving someone "money for beer," as the local euphemism goes.
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"I wish everyone was as perfect as you, Pete, but let me tell you what it's like to be in the arena," Ms. Klobuchar said in response, using her favorite euphemism for experience in Washington.
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But then one reason Scott Moncrieff's Proust sounds so Jamesian is that James's circularity sustains sexual euphemism in a way that Proust's more clinical kind does not, and those euphemisms were essential to English publication.
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Since Mehsud's killing, the issue of "police encounters", a euphemism for extra-judicial killings, has gained media coverage amid growing anger from the Pashtun community, which says its young men are unfairly and disproportionately targeted.
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"Courts have said that when employers say 'you are great, really qualified and have tremendous experience but are overqualified for this position' that could be interpreted as a euphemism for you are too old," said Kluger.
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Manual scavenging, a euphemism for disposing of faeces from dry toilets and open drains by hand, has long been an occupation thrust upon members of the Dalit group, traditionally the lowest ranked in India's caste system.
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" He would repeatedly say, "Women don't make it in OPCEN"; threaten to walk Newton "to the gate," a euphemism for firing; boast about previously firing a crying woman operator; and publicly say she "wasn't mechanically inclined.
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The "Brittany Spark" nonsense became such a trend, Bravo king Andy Cohen eventually had to ask Jax during a What What Happens Live visit if the phrase was a not-so-subtle euphemism about weight gain.
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The regulator vowed last month to improve its conduct and bring the market back to order after its chairman was placed under investigation and removed from his post for "serious disciplinary violations", a euphemism for corruption.
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The party's graft-busting Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said on Saturday that the mayor and acting party chief of Tianjin, 61-year-old Huang Xingguo, was suspected of "serious discipline breaches", a euphemism for corruption.
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Hours later, Kempe's staff announced that Bongo would no longer be coming to New York to collect the award due to "overriding priorities he has in his country"—a euphemism for the repression of public protests.
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You can date a purist if you like and receive their mix either literally or as euphemism but, goth TBQH, sleeping with purists is only hot in Schindler's List slash-fic, so go with goth god.
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"Alt-right" has become intertwined with the term white nationalism, which originated as a euphemism for white supremacy, the belief that white people are superior to all other races and should therefore dominate society, Segal said.
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The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) also said men identifying themselves as military officers had pressured some of their candidates to switch affiliation to a "King's party", a common euphemism for one favored by the powerful military.
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Tens of thousands of "mass incidents" - the usual euphemism for protests - happen in China each year, spurred by grievances over issues such as corruption, pollution and illegal land grabs, unnerving the stability-obsessed ruling Communist Party.
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It is long argued that premises for jokes and sketches can be inspired at any time and similarities can be chalked up to "parallel thinking," but that euphemism only seems convenient for one type of comedian.
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The practice of separating children from their families drew widespread condemnation, and linguists paid especially close attention to the "tender-age" designation, which some called a euphemism meant to downplay the harsh conditions of the facilities.
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I'm still new to this, so I can't say that I've experienced "mind like water" or "flow" (Allen's words) or any other euphemism for not feeling like your mind is spilling over with thoughts and ideas.
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Judge spends a good deal of time describing "Beach Week," a phase that, thanks to the emergence of Kavanaugh's youthful calendar, is on the way to becoming a euphemism as well-known as South Carolina Gov.
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The goal of "continuity of government" — an official euphemism for keeping the American state alive even if almost every American citizen ends up dead — has raised enormous ethical, bureaucratic and engineering challenges for generations of planners.
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The Central Commission of Discipline Inspection (CCDI) is investigating Tan Dinghua, former deputy general manager at state-backed Moutai, for "serious violations of discipline", a euphemism for corruption, it said in a statement on its website.
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Where his competitors nibbled in familiar professional shades of smarm and euphemism, Trump lumbered blithely up to deliver what Republican voters actually wanted, which turned out to be the crying-laughing emoji and brutal, racialized authoritarianism.
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What is true is that in the past Biden has often been a Very Serious Person going along with the Beltway consensus that we need "adjustments" — a euphemism for at least modest cuts — in Social Security.
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Meanwhile, it is rumored that the Trump administration is gearing up to unleash even more administrative attacks on these programs under the guise of "welfare reform"—a racially-coded euphemism used to mask otherwise unpopular cuts.
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A statement posted Monday on the film's official Weibo account said the film by Zhang Yimou, "One Second," had been pulled for "technical reasons," a term often used in China as a euphemism for government censorship.
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These studies enabled Pfizer to claim that, in the late 1990s, 30 million men in America suffered from "erectile dysfunction," which is the euphemism the company used to broaden the disease's reach beyond its elderly base.
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" Trump saw through the euphemism and responded in kind, later telling Fox & Friends, "I like his acting, but in terms of when I watch him doing interviews and various other things, we're not dealing with Albert Einstein.
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Social media has become a euphemism for a transaction between you and a company: You agree to provide your real identity to a company in exchange for a set of services that make the internet more useful.
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" A decade later, David Lane, a white supremacist responsible for the murder of a Jewish radio host in 22015, wrote the "White Genocide Manifesto" while in prison, arguing that "'racial integration' is only a euphemism for genocide.
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And while that third vote hasn't materialized as of this article's publication, Republican senators have started to speak surprisingly openly about pursuing "Plan B," which is their euphemism for a bipartisan healthcare bill crafted with Democratic input.
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Under a 2015 deal, Japan apologized to the "comfort women" - Japan's euphemism for women, many of them Korean, forced to work in its wartime brothels - and provided a 1 billion yen ($9.4 million) fund to help them.
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The fake posting said 3.15 million new German citizens (a common euphemism for immigrants) had voted for Merkel's conservatives, citing what it called a report by OSCE election observers that it said had been leaked by Link.
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SEOUL/TAIPEI (Reuters) - People in South Korea and Taiwan unveiled monuments and staged protests on Tuesday to mark Japan's wartime use of "comfort women", a euphemism for girls and women forced to work in Japan's wartime brothels.
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He warned of rising crime in "inner cities" (a euphemism for black people), suggesting that police should use "stop and frisk" — a strategy struck down in New York because it was discriminatory — to crack down on crime.
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The two key United States allies have long battled over the legacy of Japan's brutal colonial rule of Korea and its wartime history, particularly in relation to the comfort women, a euphemism that both countries have used.
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Under a 2015 deal, Japan apologised to the "comfort women" - Japan's euphemism for women, many of them Korean, forced to work in its wartime brothels - and provided a 1 billion yen ($9.4 million) fund to help them.
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Revenue neutrality, which is the euphemism used to describe some people's taxes going up to finance other taxes going down, is a noble goal that does not meet current economic or political realities in the United States.
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"We have a very different food-safety culture than we did two years ago, OK?" he said, referencing the E. coli, salmonella and norovirus outbreaks that have turned "eating Chipotle" into an unfortunate euphemism for intestinal distress.
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These are, obviously, two of the quirkier examples, but today, almost no celebrity is free from discussing how, exactly, they "maintain their shape" or whatever euphemism we're using in 2019 to describe the act of losing weight.
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The ongoing refugee crisis — a hopeless euphemism to describe the greatest moral failure of our time, which has left 65.3 million people displaced and pushed Greek social services to the breaking point — is inescapable in Documenta 14.
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Away from Old Trafford, most teams have moved to bring in an individual or a team of people to sift through data, to compile scouting reports, and to assist — to choose a euphemism — the manager with recruitment.
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Brundage argues that "the process by which torture is rendered invisible by euphemism and erasure, bolstering a myth that this country is 'civilized,' is an enduring American tradition," according to a reviewer for The Los Angeles Times.
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They're respectable adults at this point, and didn't want their consumption chronicled.) She was there with her husband ("who I met at a party"—"party" being a euphemism for dance music all-nighters) and her close friends.
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The Various Snakes I think most people would agree that the hottest thing about Solid Snake—or Naked, or Venom, or... all the other Snakes—(other than his name being a euphemism for a boner) is his voice.
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"At AP, we have taken the position that the term 'alt-right' should be avoided because it is meant as a euphemism to disguise racist aims," wrote John Daniszewski, the vice president of standards for the Associated Press.
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You don't have to work out which phallic euphemism hits exactly the right spot between the clinical and the juvenile — eggplants are so synonymous with dicks now that I can't order babaghanoush at the kebab shop without smirking.
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Without undue didacticism — but also without euphemism or antiquarian excuse-making — Mr. Jude, drawing in part from contemporary records and writings, exposes how deeply the oppression of the Roma was woven into the 19th-century Balkan social order.
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Japan and South Korea share a bitter history that includes Japan's 35-year occupation of the peninsula and the use of comfort women, Japan's euphemism for women - many of them Korean - forced to work in its wartime brothels.
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A bribery case in October 2016 implicated Chen on charges of receiving expensive gifts and he was also under investigation under suspicion of "severe violations of law and Party discipline", Xinhua said, using a common euphemism for corruption.
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Late on Thursday, Huarong Asset Management Co Ltd said Lai Xiaomin, the company chairman, had stepped down following a Reuters report earlier this week that he was being investigated for suspected "serious discipline violations", a euphemism for graft.
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We Happy Few draws from the classics of British dystopian fiction, evoking The Prisoner's saccharinely sinister Village, Brazil's euphemism-cloaked retro-futurism, Brave New World's drug-fueled faux-utopia, and 1984's Oceania with its constantly rewritten past.
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Japan and South Korea share a bitter history that includes Japan's 1910-45 occupation of the peninsula and the use of comfort women, Japan's euphemism for women - many of them Korean - forced to work in its wartime brothels.
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The ANC said on Tuesday it had decided to "recall" Zuma, a euphemism for removing him from office, but gave him no firm deadline to resign, setting the stage for a potential fight to wrest him from power.
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The financial markets—the euphemism that's for some reason been given to a cruel and boisterous cabal of planet-ruling philistines—has only one real demand: that they be able to accurately predict the future at all times.
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Japan and South Korea share a bitter history that includes Japan's 1910-45 colonization of the peninsula and the use of comfort women, Japan's euphemism for women - many of them Korean - forced to work in its wartime brothels.
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But there are times for hard conversations, and the language used to talk about sex, and particularly sexual misdeeds, remains wrapped in a gauze of misdirection and euphemism that risks contributing to harm, even when intentions are good.
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But Syria's main opposition High Negotiations Committee wrote to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon denouncing the corridors as "a euphemism for Russia's efforts to alter Aleppo's demographics and ensure forced displacement", which it called a war crime.
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Let's be clear: The euphemism of "enhanced interrogation techniques" or any other does not change the fact that acts amounting to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or, more severely, torture, are prohibited — no matter what they are called.
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When all pro cornerback Richard Sherman quietly played his position, he was hailed, but when he said that calling him "thug" because of his demonstrative on-field behavior was a euphemism for the N-word, he was lambasted.
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Buttigieg has instead embraced the concept of "debt-free college," which is essentially a euphemism for cutting tuition costs without making public education free in the U.S. He supports, for example, expanding Pell Grants for low-income students.
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Among the first batch, also leaked, is a confidential telegram signed by Zhu Hailun, Xinjiang's deputy party secretary, which details how local authorities should manage and operate the "vocational skills training centers" — a euphemism for the internment camps.
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Japan and South Korea share a bitter history that includes Japan's 1910-45 colonization of the peninsula and the use of "comfort women", Japan's euphemism for women - many of them Korean - forced to work in its wartime brothels.
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That is likely to be a euphemism for enacting Hong Kong's hugely controversial Article 23 national security law, according to Willy Lam, an adjunct professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and longtime analyst of Chinese politics.
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China: A film by the prominent director Zhang Yimou that is set during the Cultural Revolution was abruptly withdrawn from the Berlin Film Festival for "technical reasons" — a term often used as a euphemism for Chinese government censorship.
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Much more germane is the $63.5 million rise in annual expenses, including a $7.5 million spike in "financial, legal, and other administrative functions," as well as $10.8 million in "restructuring charges," which is a euphemism for layoff costs.
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Last week, the number of people killed since July 1 reached 2,400: about 900 died in police operations, and the rest are "deaths under investigation", a term human rights activists say is a euphemism for vigilante and extrajudicial killings.
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As MUNCHIES has previously written, the use of "crack" as a euphemism turns the people and communities affected by America's crack epidemic into a cute punchline for those that might not be facing the harrowing effects of widespread addiction.
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From slapping moving trolleys—this is not a euphemism, but literal—to telling rival Housewives that their "charity world is going to go down the toilet," Locken has already sealed her place as an iconic Housewife across all franchises.
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Mr. Kasyanov told the Interfax news agency that men "of a non-Slavic nationality," a common euphemism here for Chechens, set upon him in a Moscow restaurant, yelled death threats, smeared the cake on his head and then left.
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You would expect history's most hated and infamous anti-semite's name to come up during one of the many times someone rails against the "social democrats," which usually comes off as a thinly-veiled euphemism for Germany's Jewish population.
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Last week the number of people killed since July 1 reached 2,400: about 900 died in police operations, and the rest are "deaths under investigation", a term human rights activists say is a euphemism for vigilante and extrajudicial killings.
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It's unclear if Trump was indicating that he supported the bills in West Virginia, though the president has repeatedly voiced his support of "school choice" — a euphemism for charter schools and other uses of public money for private schooling.
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Though Emma Watson got gutsy to publicly praise OMGYes as a concept, her language was still vague, peppered in the age-old euphemism for sex — "it" — and still left female sexual pleasure in the background of the site itself.
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The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said late on Tuesday it was investigating Huarong Chairman Lai Xiaomin for suspected "serious discipline violations", a euphemism for graft, making him the latest in a string of high-profile financial executives targeted.
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After winning only 36 percent of the vote in that state's Republican primary—the last, best place to sustain hope of capturing his party's nomination—Cruz announced that he's suspending his campaign, the time-honored euphemism for the end.
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"Mission Control would then have to — to use their euphemism — 'close down communication,' and the men would have to either starve to death or commit suicide," William Safire, President Richard Nixon's speechwriter at the time, told NBC in 1999.
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Reuters reported earlier this week, citing sources, that a senior banking regulator official would take the helm at state-owned Huarong after China's anti-corruption watchdog launched a probe into Lai for "serious discipline violations", a euphemism for graft.
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In fact, K is a Blade Runner: a synthetic human known as a replicant, physically redoubtable and emotionally dry, whose job is to find and to "retire" (a ghoulish euphemism) any early-model replicants who are still out there.
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Japan, South Korea and North Korea share a bitter history that includes Japan's 1910-45 colonization of the Korean peninsula and the use of comfort women, Japan's euphemism for girls and women forced to work in its wartime brothels.
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Unfortunately for everybody involved, there is already something in the preferred location: a black neighborhood whose residents will need to be relocated, to use a popular euphemism for kicked out of their homes in exchange for a modest sum.
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Yang Hengjun was detained in southern China earlier this month and taken to Beijing where China has said he was held under "coercive measures", a euphemism for detention, as he is being investigated on suspicion of "endangering state security".
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The win sends Toronto to the Eastern Conference finals on Wednesday against the well-rested Milwaukee Bucks, and the Sixers home for the summer to reassess The Process, the euphemism often used to discuss their rebuild in recent years.
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American officials repeatedly called China's bomb a "device" — a euphemism mocked at the time by Tom Lehrer, the great satirist of the Cold War — and argued that there was no evidence China could mount it on a ballistic missile.
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The chief administrative office even warned that the country could face "massive unexpected incidents" if unemployment balloons — a euphemism in China widely understood to refer to social unrest and riots, and one that is rare in public government documents.
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Rights groups have accused the Obama administration of not being forthcoming about the precise guidelines that govern drone strikes and dispute government claims that there is no evidence that they have produced "collateral damage," a euphemism for civilian casualties.
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But there has been a corresponding trend toward embracing those with experience — nice euphemism if I've ever heard one — whether it's the cohort of over-70s who may run for president or Glenn Close sweeping up best actress awards.
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Many massage workers don't have licenses, and so refer to massage offerings by euphemism because operating a massage parlor in New York without a license is a class E felony that can result in up to four years behind bars.
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The two countries share a bitter history that includes Japan's 1910-45 colonization of the Korean peninsula and the issue of "comfort women", a Japanese euphemism for South Korean women forced to work in Japanese military brothels in World War Two.
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Cheating is so prevalent, in fact, that Dell even went so far as to advertise a new laptop for the Chinese market as being superior for running PUBG-specific plugins, with plugin being a euphemism for a cheat or hack.
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About 900 people linked to drugs have been killed in police operations since July 1 and a further 1,500 have been classed as "deaths under investigation", a term human rights activists in the Philippines say is a euphemism for extrajudicial killings.
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Japan and South Korea share a bitter history that includes Japan's 1910-45 colonization of the Korean peninsula and the use of comfort women, Japan's euphemism for girls and women, many of them Korean, forced to work in its wartime brothels.
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Like most modern trade deals, TTIP has less to do with tariffs than with so-called "non-tariff trade barriers," a euphemism for ordinary health, safety, environmental, and financial regulations that corporations want to weaken both at home and abroad.
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Whenever a woman's describing physical symptoms and a doctor attributes them to depression or anxiety or stress—particularly doctors not trained in mental health—I think that often is being used as a euphemism for what previously would've been called hysteria.
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In one 2009 survey, the costs associated with doctors and nurses "interacting" with health-insurance plans — a euphemism for those deadly hours spent filling out forms, recording prior authorizations and negotiating with insurers — amounted to more than $23 billion a year.
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The term white nationalism originated as a euphemism for white supremacy, the belief that white people are superior to all other races and should therefore dominate society, according to Oren Segal, director of the Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism.
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But relations have long been plagued by the legacy of Japan's 19903-45 colonizations of the peninsula and the war, including the matter of "comfort women", a euphemism for girls and women forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels.
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The vote was marked on the council's agenda only as "discuss and consider relocation of Library Facility cat 'Browser'" — a bureaucratic euphemism for the heartless abandonment of a former shelter cat and the start of World War 3: Cats Vs. Dogs.
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During Modi's election campaign in 2014, he railed against a "pink revolution," a euphemism for India's $5 billion-a-year meat export industry (the color pink is a reference to the color of beef), which was flourishing under Congress Party rule.
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About 900 people linked to drugs have been killed in police operations since July 1 and a further 1,500 have been classified as "deaths under investigation", a term human rights activists in the Philippines say is a euphemism for extrajudicial killings.
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Mix in speculation about what Mr. Lei, whose wife gave birth to the couple's first child in April, was doing at the time — "foot massage parlor" is a common euphemism for a brothel — and his death has attracted huge attention.
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About 1,000 Philippine women were forced into prostitution by Japanese troops during the war - they are known by the Japanese euphemism "comfort women" - a sensitive issue that had prompted some survivors to demand an apology as well as compensation from Tokyo.
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While "racial resentment" might sound like a euphemism for straightforward racism, such studies are not asking people things like "do you think whites are the superior race" or even "do you think black people are genetically inferior" in some way.
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Last week, the number of people killed since July 1 reached 2,400: about 900 died in police operations, they said, and the rest were "deaths under investigation", a term human rights activists say is a euphemism for vigilante and extrajudicial killings.
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The term white nationalism originated as a euphemism for white supremacy, the belief that white people are superior to all other races and should therefore dominate society, according to Oren Segal, director of the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism.
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"Initially, there was a lot of surprise that Axact's operations were being tackled so quickly, particularly given the view that it was being backed by the boys," he added, using a common euphemism for the military's Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency.
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In October, a commercial by Japanese clothing brand Uniqlo stirred a backlash in South Korea, where it was seen as mocking victims of forced labor and comfort women, a Japanese euphemism for women, many of them Korean, forced into wartime brothels.
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The two countries share a bitter history that includes Japan's 1910-45 colonization of the Korean peninsula and the use of comfort women, Japan's euphemism for girls and women, many of them Korean, forced to work in its wartime brothels.
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Its previous three choices were "tender-age shelter" (a euphemism for places where America's border forces keep children separated from their parents), "fake news" (often, these days, meaning real news that powerful people would like to dismiss) and "dumpster fire".
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In October, a commercial by Japanese clothing brand Uniqlo stirred a backlash in South Korea, where it was seen as mocking victims of forced labour and comfort women, a Japanese euphemism for women, many of them Korean, forced into wartime brothels.
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The "anti-corruption statement" is an apparent euphemism for the public announcement that Trump hoped Zelensky would make, where Zelensky would say that Ukraine was investigating the allegations regarding Biden and his son, as well as potential Ukrainian meddling in 2016.
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That strategy evolved into actively participating and pushing for global governance reforms, a euphemism for re-rewriting international rules, which further developed into "one world, two systems," by creating a dual international system to directly compete against the liberal democracy.
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The two U.S. allies share a bitter history that includes Japan's 1910-45 colonization of the Korean peninsula and the use of comfort women, Japan's euphemism for girls and women, many of them Korean, forced to work in its wartime brothels.
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Keep in mind, the government stats don't include samples from the "legal" market, where flowers—a common euphemism for buds—have tested way above 20% and even upper 30%, with cannabis concentrates soaring into the 90% range, a remarkable achievement in human history.
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BDAC was formed for the purpose of "reducing and removing regulatory barriers to infrastructure investment," which given that it was staffed almost entirely by industry shills, seems to have been a euphemism for helping the FCC gut local oversight of telecoms networks.
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Japan and South Korea share a bitter history that includes Japan's 35-year occupation of the Korean peninsula until 1945 and the use of comfort women, Japan's euphemism for girls and women, many of them Korean, forced to work in its wartime brothels.
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"That maybe would have answered some questions for you perhaps," Girardi told Rinna – in the politest euphemism all season for what at this point has become a very abstract, if very animated, set of opinions on Rinna's part about Hadid's Lyme disease diagnosis.
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But claims that the movie was simply "too intellectual" and "too complicated" for regular theater-goers to appreciate feel like a euphemism for a darker reality: a lack of confidence in a female-led big budget film's ability to attract an audience.
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Retirement isn't typically the next step for an executive after one of the most severe security breaches in history, but it seems to be a euphemism for 'fired' and a reflection that most senior executives are unlikely to be hirable in the future.
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There is a legend that the word "nepotism" was invented in honor of the grasping nephews of popes who sought and obtained more than they deserved thanks to their powerful uncles (and "nephews" we can sometimes see as a euphemism for "sons").
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"Versace calls Antonio d'Amico simply 'my companion,' and for once, the phrase connotes not some James-ian spinster being trundled around Europe by a niece or some euphemism bestowed by New York Times obituary writers but a genuine term of endearment," Lemon writes.
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A coalition of businesses employing H-2B guest workers has been lobbying to expand and "streamline" (a euphemism for scaling back protections for guest workers and US workers seeking the same jobs) the program that currently limits visas to 66,000 per year.
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The countries share a bitter history dating to Japan's colonisation of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945, which saw forced use of labour by Japanese companies and the use of "comfort women", a euphemism for those forced to work in wartime brothels.
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Relations between Washington's two Asian allies have long been plagued by memories of Japan's 1910-45 colonization of the peninsula and the war, including the matter of "comfort women," a euphemism for girls and women forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels.
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Relations between Washington's two Asian allies have long been plagued by memories of Japan's 1910-45 colonization of the peninsula and the war, including the matter of "comfort women", a euphemism for girls and women forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels.
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CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An Indian activist who helped to set up a human rights group campaigning for the eradication of manual scavenging, a euphemism for disposing of faeces by hand, was awarded Asia's equivalent of the Nobel prize on Wednesday.
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The ruling Communist Party's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection officially announced on Monday that 53-year-old Sun Zhengcai, former party secretary of the southwestern metropolis Chongqing, was under investigation for a "serious discipline violation" -- usually a euphemism for a corruption probe.
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"Choice" as a euphemism for abortion has been forever banished from serious public discourse by the words of Planned Parenthood's own top abortion doctors, caught on camera in the undercover videos I filmed, released last summer by The Center for Medical Progress.
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Lu Wei, who headed the country's powerful cyber administration until June 2016, was placed "under investigation for suspected serious violations of discipline," a euphemism typically used to signify corruption, the ruling Communist Party's disciplinary arm announced in a one-line statement Tuesday.
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Relations between Washington's two Asian allies have long been plagued by memories of Japan's 1910-45 colonisation of the peninsula and the war, including the matter of "comfort women", a euphemism for girls and women forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels.
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In its proximity to violence and its ever-more-accessible transmission via the internet, the hoax has metastasized, the stakes raised ever higher in what Mr. Young calls our "Age of Euphemism," when "fake news" is a rallying cry for any unwelcome report.
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After long denying the camps' existence, the government now calls them benign training centers that teach law, Mandarin and vocational skills — a claim that has been exposed as a disingenuous euphemism and an attempt to deflect criticism for gross human rights abuses.
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SYDNEY, Australia — An Australian lawmaker invoked a Nazi euphemism for genocide on Tuesday, calling for a "final solution to the immigration problem" during a speech in Parliament in which he proposed a national plebiscite on banning all Muslims from entering the country.
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He has sought to differentiate his often more conservative stances from those of his father, former chief cabinet secretary Yohei Kono, who authored a landmark 1993 apology to "comfort women", a Japanese euphemism for women forced to work in Japanese military wartime brothels.
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Both the European Union and the UK's NCSC also released new guidelines this week for working with so-called "high risk vendors" in telecom—a euphemism for Huawei—which lays out a possible framework and roadmap for other countries to follow suit.
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In a memo to reporters writing about the "alt-right," John Daniszewski, vice president for Standards at the Associated Press, cautioned journalists to be specific and deliberate when writing about a label that many say is just a euphemism for white nationalism.
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Part of Identity Evropa's strategy now relies on its ability to weaponize metaphors to make their white nationalism seem more acceptable, like referring to "European heritage" — which white nationalist often use as a euphemism to mean "white" — or seizing on mainstream conservative issues like immigration.
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I met Jenny, a 32-year-old massage worker based in Flushing who at the time we spoke offered full service (the euphemism for intercourse), in front of a concrete lion demarcating the historic main branch of the New York Public Library in Manhattan.
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The book never quite explains what it means to "wash your face," but you get the idea that it's a euphemism for toughening up, taking a good, hard look in the mirror, and getting out into the world with a kind of clear-eyed resolve.
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The toll in his government's two-month war on drugs reached 2,400 last week, with police saying about 900 people died in police operations, and the rest were "deaths under investigation", a term human rights activists call a euphemism for vigilante and extrajudicial killings.
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Gupta, who ran the global management consultants McKinsey for nine years and was on the board of investment bank Goldman Sachs, said he was twice placed in a "special housing unit" – a euphemism for solitary confinement - at the Devens Correctional Facility in Ayer, Massachusetts.
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" Backpage moderators, meanwhile, should be on the lookout for "ads written from masculine perspective," particularly if they employed the euphemism "new in town," which "is often used by pimps who shuttle children to locations where they do not know anyone and cannot get help.
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So did the outgoing governor, Mark Sanford, then mired in the scandal that introduced "hiking the Appalachians" to the lexicon of political euphemism; Mrs Haley herself faced down unsubstantiated allegations of adultery, plus innuendos about her religion (she grew up Sikh but converted to Christianity).
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Lapena said PDEA would make up for the manpower shortage by strengthening links to local communities, setting up anti-drugs councils to identify those in need of rehabilitation, or "neutralization", which he said meant arrests and prosecution, and was not a euphemism for killing.
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I admit that my tweet was a bit more pointed than my other tweets to Trump, some of which have gone viral, but the media must call a liar a liar and not a person who posits "alternative facts" or any other silly euphemism.
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Japan and South Korea are seeking to boost cooperation over North Korea, despite lingering tension between them over the issue of "comfort women", a Japanese euphemism for women - many of them Korean - forced to work in Japanese military brothels before and during World War Two.
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Newspaper editorials and social media are awash with fears the poll may be delayed due to behind-the-scenes scheming by "anti-democratic forces" - yet another euphemism used to describe the army and its spy bodies, including the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency.
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Security sources said the seven were arrested for "promoting sexual deviancy," a euphemism in Egypt for homosexuality, after they were seen on camera raising the rainbow flag at a Mashrou' Leila concert, a popular Lebanese alternative rock band whose lead singer is openly gay.
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Daniel Kingery, 37, a former parishioner at All Saints Church in Harlem, said the merger of All Saints and St. Charles Borromeo in 2015 was "a euphemism for closing and selling property" and alleged the archdiocese deliberately posted the decrees while parishioners were on vacation.
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The commentator, Katie Hopkins, a conservative provocateur in the mold of Ann Coulter, is to step down after calling on Twitter for a "final solution" to the terrorism problem, which some had interpreted as a call for genocide, echoing the Nazi euphemism for the Holocaust.
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South Korea and Japan share a bitter history dating to the Japanese colonisation of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945, including the use of comfort women, a euphemism for girls and women, many of them Korean, forced to work in its wartime brothels.
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South Korea and Japan share a bitter history dating to the Japanese colonization of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945, including the use of comfort women, a euphemism for girls and women, many of them Korean, forced to work in its wartime brothels.
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Without taking sides or resorting to euphemism, consider alternatives when appropriate to explain the specific circumstances of the person in question, or to focus on actions: who crossed the border illegally; who overstayed a visa; who is not authorized to work in this country.
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In 2015, she raised doubts about the grounds for criticism that China and South Korea level at Japan, describing former "comfort women" - a Japanese euphemism for the women, many of them Korean, who were forced to work in Japan's wartime military brothels - as "lying".
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In this sense, calling Arcosanti an "urban laboratory" is more than a flattering euphemism—it is a living experiment that is meant to confront a variety of academic disciplines with questions about how they can use their specialized knowledge to think about the way we inhabit space.
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"I was just chatting with someone about the fact that I think because of my experience, some things other people might have struggled with were sort of normalized to a certain extent," Bianco said, using "things" as a euphemism for the series' many intense nude moments.
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Reporters, eager to appear neutral, have taken to deploying the word as a euphemism for the resurgent racist right; when USA Today calls the alt-right a vehicle for "racism, populism, and white nationalism," for example, it's not clear what these terms mean or how they differ.
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Correction, 5:50 PM ET While Epic's original statement about Rocket League's continued existence on Steam seemed like a sure euphemism that it was getting pulled — which we stated as fact — it can also be interpreted as Epic not having yet made the decision to pull.
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He could also be my brother, my cousin, and in an alternate universe, my boyfriend, one of my nephews, a man I see on a SEPTA bus, my neighbor who was away, the favored euphemism family tend to use for incarcerated loved ones who have returned home.
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Generally speaking in this space, "war" is just a euphemism for competition whether it occurs within the industry—see EA's "war" with Activision, back when Battlefield 3 was gunning for Call of Duty, as an example—or between players in-game over short, brutal multiplayer matches.
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" So, while the USDS has worked tirelessly to improve the functioning of the VA and Medicare, it doesn't necessarily follow that Kushner's programs try to improve the functionality of government programs—on the right, after all, "efficiency" is often a euphemism for "cutting budgets and staff.
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Eliminating it, or crippling it by making it a commission (a euphemism for partisan paralysis) or subjecting it to the annual congressional appropriations process (where it can be underfunded by Wall Street's allies to render it ineffective) would take the consumer cops off the Wall Street beat.
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The highest-ranking management casualty so far appears to be Carrie Tolstedt, the former head of Wells Fargo's retail banking operations, who "retired," to use the bank's euphemism, in July, and was given a rousing send-off with an exit package then worth more than $100 million.
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But, whether followed by expressions of contrition or sanitized by the euphemism "the n-word," its use by others, including the former President of the United States, keeps forcing all of us to deal with that hateful (to some), endearing (to some) and confusing (to many) word.
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" A quick look at Urban Dictionary will tell you that "boofing" is a euphemism for anal sex, and a Devil's Triangle is, as we all suspected, a threesome—specifically, to cite the definition, between one woman and two dudes where it's "important" not to "make eye contact.
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Politico is reporting that they've received schedules showing that far more of the president's day is spent in "Executive Time" (a euphemism for activities such as television viewing, tweeting and phoning friends) than in carrying out the normal presidential duties of reading briefings and attending policy meetings.
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Black and White Capital, a small hedge fund, took a stake in Etsy and sent a private letter to the board, saying it was insufficiently focused on sales growth, that operations were inefficient, and that the company should "explore strategic alternatives" — a euphemism for selling the company.
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But everyday liberalism is sufficiently muddled between semi-Christian ideas and a utilitarian materialism that mostly the system is defended by euphemism and evasion, and by a failure to imagine oneself as all of us once were: tiny and dependent and hidden, and yet still essentially ourselves.
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The investigation concluded that the dispute over the comfort women, a Japanese euphemism for the thousands of girls and women, many of them Korean, forced to work in wartime brothels, could not be "fundamentally resolved" because the victims' demand for legal compensation had not been met.
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To most in France, though, it is in the northern swath of the banlieues, a label that is both a euphemism and a stigma: places with large, working-class, nonwhite communities, synonymous with riots and social strife, thought of as breeding grounds for crime and terrorism.
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In this unflinching nonfiction work, translated by Janet Hong, the artist races against time to record the life of "Granny" Lee, born in 235, who as a 21970-year-old was forced to become a "comfort woman" (that abominable euphemism) during Japan's occupation of Korea (73-27).
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In the days leading up to our interview, friends eagerly sent me questions they wanted him to answer, mostly to do with his feelings about the rules around "physical touch," the love language that some people (myself included) had always understood as a cute euphemism for sex.
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Tim had acted in his youth and still occasionally had a minor role Off Broadway, but what he obviously devoted his time to now was having work done (as was the euphemism); he looked like someone with a mask stretched tightly over his face, cheekbones protruding.
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The dispute is the latest flashpoint in a relationship long over-shadowed by South Korean resentment of Japan's 1910-1945 occupation of the Korean peninsula, in particular South Korean "comfort women", a Japanese euphemism for women forced to work in Japanese military brothels before and during World War Two.
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The "casting couch," a euphemism for male producers and directors demanding sex in exchange for a role in a film, emblematizes the overarching power dynamic long understood within the industry: Men took what they wanted; women played by or otherwise endured those rules if they wanted to succeed.
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The dispute is the latest flashpoint in a relationship long over-shadowed by South Korean resentment of Japan's 1910-1945 occupation of the Korean peninsula, in particular South Korean comfort women, a Japanese euphemism for women forced to work in Japanese military brothels before and during World War Two.
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It is the latest flashpoint in a relationship long over-shadowed by South Korean resentment of Japan's 1910-1945 occupation of the Korean peninsula, in particular South Korean "comfort women", a Japanese euphemism for women forced to work in Japanese military brothels before and during World War Two.
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The two countries share a bitter history that includes Japan's 1910-893 colonisation of the Korean peninsula, the forced mobilisation of labour at Japanese companies and the use of comfort women, Japan's euphemism for girls and women, many of them Korean, forced to work in its wartime brothels.
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We do this not by focusing merely on what's civil, certainly when civility is used as a euphemism for tone-policing, or when it's employed to pathologize and silence social justice activists (as if loudly calling out injustice and bigotry is an equivalent sin to that injustice and bigotry).
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South Korea and Japan share a bitter history that includes Japan's 1910-45 colonization of the Korean peninsula, the forced mobilization of labor at Japanese companies and the use of comfort women, Japan's euphemism for girls and women, many of them Korean, forced to work in its wartime brothels.
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The term alt-right has become intertwined with the term white nationalism, which originated as a euphemism for white supremacy, the belief that white people are superior to all other races and should therefore dominate society, according to Oren Segal, director of the Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism.
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Without confirming the investigation, a commentary posted on Sunday on the social media account of People's Daily, the Communist Party mouthpiece, said Yang's "disappearance" was a sign the corruption crackdown in the financial sector had entered a "deep water zone" – a euphemism for a crucial and difficult period.
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In recent years, South Koreans have in similar fashion demanded an apology from Japan for its historical use of "comfort women" - a wartime euphemism for the women, many from Korea, who were forced into prostitution and sexually abused at Japanese military brothels before and during World War Two.
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The two countries share a bitter history that includes Japan's 1910-893 colonization of the Korean peninsula, the forced mobilization of labor at Japanese companies and the use of comfort women, Japan's euphemism for girls and women, many of them Korean, forced to work in its wartime brothels.
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The two countries share a bitter history that includes Japan's 1910-45 colonization of the Korean peninsula, the forced mobilization of labor at Japanese companies and the use of comfort women, Japan's euphemism for girls and women, many of them Korean, forced to work in its wartime brothels.
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Relations between Japan and South Korea have cooled over a bitter history that includes Japan's 1910-45 colonization of the Korean peninsula, the forced mobilization of labor at Japanese companies and the use of comfort women, Japan's euphemism for girls and women forced to work in its wartime brothels.
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South Korea and Japan have a bitter history that includes the 1910-45 Japanese colonisation of the Korean peninsula, the forced mobilisation of labour at Japanese companies and the use of "comfort women" - Japan's euphemism for girls and women, many of them Korean - forced to work in military brothels.
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The two U.S. allies are seeking to boost cooperation over North Korea's nuclear and missile programs, despite lingering tension between them over the issue of "comfort women", a Japanese euphemism for women - many of them Korean - forced to work in Japanese military brothels before and during World War Two.
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The "alt-right" is itself a euphemism invented by racists who wanted to lose the stigma of their hateful beliefs, and its foot-soliders know—perhaps better than even their forebears—that the best way to spread their ideas through fashion, music, and comedy is via a Trojan Horse.
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A hearse carried the casket of Kim Bok-dong, who died this week at 93, to the embassy to highlight the plight of "comfort women," a Japanese euphemism for women who were forced into prostitution and sexually abused at Japanese military brothels before and during World War Two.
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Mr. Abe called on South Korea to uphold a December 2015 agreement in which the two countries announced what they called at the time a "final and irreversible" settlement on the issue of "comfort women" — a euphemism for Koreans forced into sexual slavery for Japan's World War II army.
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The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has already warned lawmakers that their tax plan could trigger an automatic $25 billion cut to Medicare in 85033 alone, and President Trump has himself suggested that "welfare reform" — a euphemism for attacking safety net programs — is next up on the legislative agenda.
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It is the latest flashpoint in a relationship long over-shadowed by South Korean resentment of Japan's 230.5-28.7 occupation of the Korean peninsula, in particular South Korean "comfort women", a Japanese euphemism for women forced to work in Japanese military brothels before and during World War Two.
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"Without question the euphemism of 'trade tensions' does not do justice to the scale of the impact of recent trade actions, actual and potential, and to some extent the fundamental challenge to the nature of the trading system," Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said during a luncheon speech here.
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The neighbors share a bitter history dating to Japan's colonization of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945, which saw forced use of labor by Japanese companies and the use of comfort women, a euphemism for girls and women, many of them Korean, forced to work in its wartime brothels.
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South Korea and Japan share a bitter history that includes the 1910-45 Japanese colonization of the Korean peninsula, the forced mobilization of labor at Japanese companies and the use of comfort women, Japan's euphemism for girls and women, many of them Korean, forced to work in its wartime brothels.
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The neighbours share a bitter history dating to Japan's colonisation of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945, which saw forced use of labour by Japanese companies and the use of comfort women, a Japanese euphemism for girls and women, many of them Korean, forced to work in its wartime brothels.
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The countries share a bitter history dating to Japan's colonization of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945, which saw forced use of labor by Japanese companies and the use of "comfort women," a Japanese euphemism for girls and women, many of them Korean, forced to work in its wartime brothels.
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The neighbours share a bitter history dating to Japan's colonisation of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945, which saw forced use of labour by Japanese companies and the use of "comfort women", a Japanese euphemism for girls and women, many of them Korean, forced to work in its wartime brothels.
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The neighbours share a bitter history dating to the Japanese colonisation of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945, including forced use of labour by Japanese companies and the use of comfort women, a euphemism for girls and women, many of them Korean, forced to work in its wartime brothels.
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The neighbors share a bitter history dating to Japan's colonization of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945, which saw forced use of labor by Japanese companies and the use of "comfort women," a Japanese euphemism for girls and women, many of them Korean, forced to work in its wartime brothels.
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The neighbors share a bitter history dating to Japan's colonization of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945, which saw forced use of labor by Japanese companies and the use of comfort women, a Japanese euphemism for girls and women, many of them Korean, forced to work in its wartime brothels.
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What the decision means in practice is that "right to work," the conservative euphemism for the notion that you shouldn't be forced to join a union or pay dues to work a job, now applies to the public sector, the last remaining part of the American economy where unions remain strong.
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Jones repeatedly claimed that the post was not anti-Semitic and that he was being framed by "Smolletts," a reference to actor Jussie Smollett and a euphemism for what he claimed was a network of commenters simultaneously posting and reporting content in an effort to get him kicked off the platform.
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But reducing the debt is often a euphemism for cutting programs that Republicans don't like—raising taxes on rich people is a much better and more efficient way to reduce the debt, and it has the added bonus of not destroying programs beloved by rich and non-rich people alike.
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They had been signaling for weeks that they were fine with Assad remaining in power, and over the weekend Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had said that the people of Syria would determine who was in charge of Syria (the people of Syria is a euphemism for "Bashar al-Assad").
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Abe told Japan's Sankei newspaper in an exclusive interview conducted on Tuesday that he wanted to attend the Games partly to tell his South Korean counterpart that he cannot accept Seoul's call for more steps to help "comfort women", a euphemism for those forced to work in Japan's wartime military brothels.
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The neighbours share a bitter history dating to Japan's colonisation of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945, which saw forced use of labour by Japanese companies and the use of comfort women, a euphemism for girls and women, many of them Korean, forced to work in its wartime brothels.
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The countries share a bitter history dating to Japan's colonization of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945, which saw forced use of labor by Japanese companies and the use of "comfort women", a Japanese euphemism for girls and women, many of them Korean, forced to work in its wartime brothels.
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South Korea and Japan share a bitter history that includes the latter's 1910-45 colonisation of the Korean peninsula, the forced mobilisation of labour at Japanese companies and the use of comfort women, Japan's euphemism for girls and women, many of them Korean, forced to work in its wartime brothels.
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The neighbors share a bitter history dating to the Japanese colonization of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945, including forced use of labor by Japanese companies and the use of comfort women, a euphemism for girls and women, many of them Korean, forced to work in its wartime brothels.
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He says that while "historical policy" is generally used as a "euphemism for the nationalistic rewriting of history," that also "not all the blame should be shouldered by the right-wingers, it derives from the general disregard to the autonomy of institutions, and a lack of interest in their programmes."
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Though he declined to say how exactly he first funded his label and studio, his favored euphemism, "before music" — as in, "I had money before music" — nods to his arrests and jail time on gun possession and drug-dealing charges, a history he shares with the artists he is nurturing.
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China: A film by the prominent director Zhang Yimou that's set during the Cultural Revolution was abruptly pulled from the Berlin Film Festival for "technical reasons" — a term often used as a euphemism for government censorship — adding to worries about the Communist Party's broadening crackdown on discussions of sensitive topics.
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Enhancing security in those four counties before the vote is "a euphemism for state preparation to unleash even more lethal force and state violence into these counties than has been witnessed in recent times," opposition leader and co-founder of the NASA coalition Musalia Mudavadi said in a speech Friday.
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However, ties between Japan and America's other key Asian ally, South Korea, have been frayed since President Moon Jae-in took office last May and cast doubts over a 2015 agreement meant to lay to rest a feud over "comfort women", a euphemism for women forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels.
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It's very possible their overseas products have ingredients that aren't allowed in the US. (Conversely, there are ingredients in US-sold sunscreens that aren't allowed in other countries.) While niche brands are perhaps more honest about the intention of these skin care products, larger companies generally lean toward euphemism in their language.
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Hearing about techno as it was originally conceived—as a reaction to inner-city decay, as byproduct of African-American struggle, as a form of protest — served as a crucial reminder of the roots of this dance music, and that the name Underground Resistance was in no way a euphemism, but a reality.
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The men chatted idly in the heat, using a shared jargon, weighted with euphemism, black humor, and profanity, a private language unintelligible to a stranger: heading into the desert was 'going up the blue'; a raid was 'a party' or 'jolly'; grumbling was 'ticking'; sinking into sand was 'crash diving' or 'periscope work.
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Today, 8003 countries — including Zimbabwe, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Kenya, the United Arab Emirates and Germany — are using Chinese-made intelligent monitoring systems, and 36 have received training in topics like "public opinion guidance," which is typically a euphemism for censorship, according to an October report from Freedom House, a pro-democracy research group.
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" With time, Mr. Lux gravitated toward a taut, precise realism, finding his subject matter in seemingly mundane events to which he applied an often comic twist, reflected in titles like "Attila the Hun Meets Pope Leo I" and "Like Tiny Baby Jesus, in Velour Pants, Sliding Down Your Throat (a Belgian Euphemism).
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But for the past few years I've looked at the "Marginal Gains Era"—a handy euphemism for cheating, from Tracktown, USA to the Tour de France—as a way of investigating our own lives and thinking about the small changes we could make to find ourselves a little better off down the road.
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In one of the most dramatic moments of this year's festival, "One Second," a drama by the acclaimed Chinese director Zhang Yimou that is set during the Cultural Revolution, was removed from competition days before its planned premiere for "technical reasons," a term frequently used in China as a euphemism for government censorship.
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Read: Bill Taylor's Testimony Paints a 'Damning' Picture of Trump's Ukraine Quid Pro Quo Burisma employed 2020 Democratic hopeful Joe Biden's son Hunter for a number of years as a paid board member, and the word "Burisma" has seemingly come to be used by Trump's circle as a euphemism for investigating the Bidens in Ukraine.
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The two Asian neighbors share a bitter history stemming from Japan's 1910-20173 colonization of the Korean peninsula, the use of forced labor at Japanese companies, and the abuse of 'comfort women' - Japan's euphemism for girls and women, many of them Korean, who were forced to work in its military brothels during World War Two.
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That includes the fact that Josh -- by day a janitor in a research lab -- has spent his time lusting after (a euphemism, that) videogame-heroine-come-to-life Tiger (Eliza Coupe), who, like her partner Wolf (Derek Wilson), tends to take almost everything literally and responds to most situations by wanting to kill something.
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When Comey admitted to "sloppiness" in handling certain parts of the investigation, Wallace responded that "sloppiness may be a euphemism for what he found" and pointed out the IG found 85033 errors in one of the applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court for a warrant to wiretap Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
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Relations between the neighbours have been plagued for years for bitterness over Japan's colonisation of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945, which saw forced use of labour by Japanese companies and the use of "comfort women", a Japanese euphemism for girls and women, many of them Korean, forced to work in its wartime brothels.
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Berjon tweeted a response to Rothenberg's thanks for what the latter tortuously referred to as "your explorations" — I mean, the mind just boggles as to what he was thinking to come up with that euphemism — thanking him for reversing his position on GDPR, and for reversing his prior leadership vacuum on supporting robustly enforced online privacy laws.
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Michael Wolff's new book says the president has three television screens installed in his bedroom; the New York Times reports that he has a "Super TiVo" device, allowing him to record cable news and watch it later; private schedules obtained by Axios show the president takes hours of "executive time"—a delightful euphemism for telly, tweeting and telephoning.
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MORE STORIES FROM THE HILL Dems must look inward after defeat, determine why message lost Donald Trump and the GOP, see you in two years The fight against Trump has only begun "Humanitarianism," we soon found out, was simply a euphemism for regime change which was supposed to propel Clinton into the White House in 2017.
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That it took such a long investigation, as well as 40 days of questioning during which the suspects were subjected to "special measures"—the euphemism used by Israel's legal system for physical coercion or torture—is a sign of how difficult it is for Israelis to come to grips with anti-Arab racism within their society.
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But while to a majority of the holiday's celebrants this means Cadbury eggs hidden in the nooks and crannies of gardens, to a smaller number of people, "easter eggs" are a euphemism for the little secrets found in media, such as albums and tracks, including one particularly notable tune by Richard D. James, aka Aphex Twin.
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The trial of O. J. Simpson for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald L. Goldman touched every exposed nerve in the American body politic and forced Americans to confront matters we often prefer to cloak in euphemism and denial: racial division, domestic violence, the hyperactivity of the news media and the toxicity of celebrity culture.
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It features a Ferris wheel, a bar, and little tents at which the NFL Draft's pilgrims can participate in simulated football activities and interact, free of charge, with NFL-adjacent brands; it is a place in which the words "visit the Skittles tent" is not an opaque euphemism for buying drugs but an actual thing that people can do.
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The English "thank you" does not carry the reciprocal meaning of a gift both granted and received in the sense that glows out of Eucharist: the prefix eu , as in Eugenia (wellborn) or "euphemism" (nice, kind, gentle phrase), plus cháris , from which come "charisma" and "charism" (used by religious communities to mean a particular vocation or gift).
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" (So that explains the "selective service" euphemism!) Other photos in the Mid-Week Pictorial this week served as a reminder that the war was being waged on many fronts, in many ways and under many uniforms — including a combination gas mask and sun screen that looks like the precursor of the Tusken raiders' costumes in "Star Wars.
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But the new "One Day at a Time," which arrives while Hispanic TV families are still a rarity, also casually refutes the lazy postelection punditry that "working-class" is a euphemism for "white," that there is an either-or choice between the "identity politics" of representing the underrepresented and a class-based focus on people's economic struggles.
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In a 1978 memoir about his navy experiences in Indonesia, he wrote that some of his men "started attacking local women or became addicted to gambling" and added, "For them, I went to great pains and had a comfort station built," using the euphemism for a military brothel, years before forced prostitution became a political and diplomatic issue.
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But with a disappointing lack of female representation in the Golden Globes nominations for best director this year ("lack of" being a euphemism for zero, nada, zilch) despite several amazing and deserving candidates (Greta Gerwig, Dee Rees, Patty Jenkins, to name the main contenders), I found myself wondering: does this aura of cool actually translate into more gender parity in the nominations?
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Dahl made 'Snozzberries' an incredibly foul pun after the film came out In his 1979 book My Uncle Oswald (a bizarrely adult story about well, it's bizarre, Dahl uses "snozzberry" as a euphemism for "penis" (George Bernard Shaw's member, specifically don't ask), thus creating an incredibly dirty pun ("The snozzberries taste like snozzberries") in one of his own works, retroactively.
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South Korea and Japan's bilateral relations have recently deteriorated to some of its worst in decades over a bitter history that includes the 1910-45 Japanese colonisation of the Korean peninsula, the forced mobilization of labor at Japanese companies and the use of "comfort women" - Japan's euphemism for girls and women, many of them Korean - forced to work in military brothels.
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To many settlers on Israel's right, the term "one state" can mean Israeli sovereignty over the entire West Bank, while to some on the left in Europe and the United States, it can be a euphemism for a binational state with no Israel, said David Makovsky, director of the Project on the Middle East Peace Process at the Washington Institute.
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On her first day working in "customer experience" at the Circle — it's a euphemism for being on the customer help desk — Mae Holland (Watson) walks past the Dali Lama and is handed a shiny new tablet with her name on it, and she feels euphorically happy about working at a company where all of her young, attractive co-workers are affable and enthusiastic.
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Though Young's argument is winding, his tone at times eccentric or amused, by the time Young brings in Susan Smith (the South Carolina woman who in 1994 blamed the disappearance of her children, whom she'd murdered, on an imaginary black carjacker), Rachel Dolezal and our own Age of Euphemism (Young's term for our dog-whistling disjunctions from the facts), his indictment is overwhelming.
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In the best of times, a matchmaker might find her a decent husband with whom she can raise a family of sons, but these are the worst of times, and, before any match can be made, the Japanese Imperial Army takes Singapore and 17-year-old Wang Di is kidnapped to work as a "comfort woman," the chilling euphemism for a sexual slave.
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In its latest reveal of "coordinated inauthentic behavior" — aka the euphemism Facebook uses for disinformation campaigns that rely on its tools to generate a veneer of authenticity and plausibility in order to pump out masses of sharable political propaganda — the company says it identified two operations, both originating in Russia, and both using similar tactics without any apparent direct links between the two networks.
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She hits him with an amazing one liner: "It's not up to you to save me," which is later slightly diminished when she finds him at the bow railing, saying that he loves her so much, and admits she changed her mind—so, he shushes her, tells her to close her eyes, makes her climb up the rail, and they "fly" together (not a euphemism).
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In between updates on his career and family life, Chingaling also uses the account to shower us in blessings and lessons about the secret realities of the physical and spiritual worlds, like this one from last fall where he teaches us that uh, the biblical serpent in Genesis' Garden of Eden is a euphemism for sperm, and um.. the apple is the orgasm, and… yeah.
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The Facebook founder is fighting because he knows his platform is a targeted attack; On individual attention, via privacy-hostile behaviorally targeted ads (his euphemism for this is "relevant ads"); on social cohesion, via divisive algorithms that drive outrage in order to maximize platform engagement; and on democratic institutions and norms, by systematically eroding consensus and the potential for compromise between the different groups that every society is comprised of.
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Add to that a public relations error from Karren Brady in which she described the move to the London Stadium as "a real opportunity to change the brand values of the club" – a comment which felt a bit like a euphemism for trading in West Ham's working-class, East End identity for something more marketable – and it's understandable that communication is an area which supporters feel can be improved.
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It would be inefficient to run through them all, but just know that Postmates makes $1 billion worth of sales annually, GrubHub (which owns Seamless) was valued at $2 billion when it went public in 2014, and there is a ridiculous number of alcohol delivery startups that essentially all have cutesy names that sound like a euphemism for peeing or sexual harassment (Thirstie, Drizly, Tipsy, and so on).
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Referred to during the seeding stage last year, when Zuckerberg gave select face-time to podcast and TV hosts he felt comfortable would spread his conceptual gospel with a straight face, as a sort of 'Supreme Court of Facebook', this supplementary content decision-making body has since been outfitted in the company's customary (for difficult topics) bloodless 'Facebookese' (see also "inauthentic behavior"; its choice euphemism for fake activity on its platform).
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