It became as overused as blinking text and background music.
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That's certainly an overused and somewhat taboo word these days.
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We know the expression "all the feels" is tragically overused.
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But unfortunately, it's been vastly overused, as have all opioids.
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He doesn't bear witness — an overused and often presumptuous idea.
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"The phrase constitutional crisis has been overused, but certainly," Rep.
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It's a real celebration, even though that word is overused.
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I know those are overused words, but they're really important.
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It's also true that salt is overused in processed foods.
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In preparation for the show, Harris scrubbed the overused bathrooms.
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In an effort to stop gun violence, it was overused.
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" And the most overused phrase, "No personal data was compromised.
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But editing is so overused in just a basic scene.
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After two years, though, he thinks the term is becoming overused.
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Overused, it leads judges to trample on executive and legislative authority.
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"It will wear thin if it is overused," Mr. Edwards said.
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"Diversity and inclusivity have become overused buzzwords these days," she says.
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"Glow" is a term that's overused in the skin-care space.
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But non-binary is getting a bit too overused at the moment.
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I usually feel the word "awesome" is overused in describing YouTube videos.
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Though the passive has some applications, it is overused in formal contexts.
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Orrin Hatch, complained that Obama overused the law to over-protect land.
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But, adds Carver in an email to PEOPLE, he is never overused.
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Well – it didn't take long for the phrase "overtourism" to get overused.
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Finally. It's a word that's famously overused in tech, and it's understandable.
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She feels that welfare is necessary, but that it has become overused.
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DAVID, HE OF the spat with Goliath, is an overused corporate analogy.
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To invoke an overused phrase, the shame, stigma, and silence were deafening.
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It is an overused phrase, but it's almost Goldilocks for the Fed.
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But an indexing behemoth like Vanguard says that is an overused argument.
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Whatever they do, they're never accused of promoting tired or overused stereotypes.
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It's an overused word in this space, but the effect is downright magical.
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It's an overused phrase, but it certainly applies here: This is not normal.
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The phrase, while well-intentioned, is overused, vague and way too open-ended.
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Skip the cheesy adjectives and overused terms and go for action verbs instead.
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It was not my intent to be used for everything — it's way overused.
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Folks declared how Uber is an overused example of a digitally disruptive business.
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Modern urban libraries are often overused and underfunded, not the other way around.
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To speak publicly at all is a privilege they have already vastly overused.
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The phrase "end of an era" is overused to the point of cliche.
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I don't like to label movies as underrated; it's an overused, hackneyed phrase.
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It's an overused definition as well, and I think it's a little pretentious.
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What's left of a community that has been overused, often in the shadows?
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Still, it is widely believed that the surgery is overused in many countries.
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Unprecedented is an overused word in financial markets — but this time it's justified.
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Research published in 2005 found injections were overused in the Sindh province of Pakistan.
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The word "vibe" gets overused, but yeah, it's got a good vibe to it.
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"We hate them because they are fluffy and filled with overused adjectives," Augustine said.
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The inexperienced writer may find these clichés and overused words rushing to the fingertips.
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That said, we do worry about the animal kingdom theme getting a bit overused.
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The term became so overused that it was crowned a word of the year.
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The term "cinematic" is overused in video game criticism to the point of cliche.
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Slow motion has long been one of the coolest (and overused) effects in video.
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"This word is overused but the piece is the definition of brave," she said.
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Well, I think as a pop cult fad, it's a bit overused in general.
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Sessions' concern, however, wasn't that police reform by consent decree was overused or ineffective.
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The reason is that bacteria develop a resistance to antibiotics when overused or misused.
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" It was not my intent to be used for everything — it's way overused," he admits.
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It's time to switch up that overused dog lens for something more festive this weekend.
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"I wanted to create context around a word that I think is overused," he explains.
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It's definitely one of the more overused ones, but there's always a reason for popularity.
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Stumbling over some overused clichés, I tried my best to put his mind at rest.
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It's clever and overused, and apparently causes for a spike in the group's YouTube traffic.
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He hasn't been overused in the last part of this season nor throughout the playoffs.
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" Mr. Burns added: "But you do have to ask the question, Can they be overused?
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Apoorva Mehta founded Instacart in 2012 before the on-demand economy was an overused buzzword.
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Buzzwords, like passionate, leadership, specialized, dedicated, focused, team player, and experienced, are overused resume jargon.
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These individuals are sometimes referred to as kingpins, a term that experts say is overused.
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Perhaps even in an overused turn-of-phrase, Obama's words are, dare we say, presidential.
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His dumpster fire ad is a play on one of the most overused metaphors on Twitter.
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There are so many good ways to be horny that aren't extremely violent or painfully overused.
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" Bloomberg had apologized for stop and frisk before and admitted again Tuesday the practice was "overused.
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She's grateful for the education she's received on bullying but doesn't believe the word is overused.
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Drugs are shared, people don't finish courses of treatment and antibiotics are overused in veterinary practices.
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Doing one other cardio exercise that incorporates lateral movement will prevent the joints from becoming overused.
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Fairy tale weddings are kind of an overused term, but this one really hits the mark.
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Antibiotics are really effective for treating UTIs, but they're also overused throughout medicine and in agriculture.
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But haven't we learned that "conventional" and "wisdom" aren't exactly overused to describe this White House?
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Once you're aware of tag questions, it will surprise you how overused they are at work.
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Originality. Ahead, six overused dating app profiles that you might want to think twice before posting.
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As a marketing ploy, the mask has been overused to within an inch of its life.
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Officials, however, warn that the Special Forces are overused and exhausted, increasingly deployed for long periods.
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It simply helps — to once more use that perhaps overused but crucial term — to achieve balance.
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There's a reason "gaslighting" has become one of the most overused terms of the Trump era.
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After all, the phrase "laugh to keep from crying" is an overused cliché for a reason.
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But Mr. Trump's supporters say that in recent years, presidents have overused and abused that authority.
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"It's an overused phrase, but I am cautiously optimistic about 2017 for the business," he said.
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"I can't," Four replies, citing family obligations, that ever-overused justification for complicity in larger injustices.
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I've been covered by Anthem for several years and have never overused or misused any benefits.
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"We don't believe the reason broad spectrum antibiotics are overused is that physicians aren't educated," he said.
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Part of the problem is the term "antihero" is overused by viewers and critics of prestige television.
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Arsenal are a parody of themselves at this point, the worn-out punchline to an overused joke.
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By 1997 it was so overused that it only reached the sea 139 days in the year.
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"Psychological horror" is an overused term, but Layers of Fear truly was a game haunted by violence.
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U+1F926 FACE PALM The "face palm" is a common internet sentiment, and in my opinion, overused.
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That's great news because antibiotics are overused in general, contributing to the growth of antibiotic resistant superbugs.
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You could argue that the term "breaking the internet" has become so overused, it's lost all meaning.
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The word "innovation" is so overused during a show like IFA that it quickly loses its meaning.
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The term "elevated dining" may be overused in the culinary world, but thisAthens restauranttakes that concept literally.
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The word tour de force is an overused critical cliché, but it's the only appropriate one here.
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That's why the term "woke," despite being overused to the point of parody, still has some resonance.
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The few overused bathrooms relied on an old septic system that hadn't been renovated since the 1940s.
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In fact, consider getting rid of company credit cards; they get overused and bad habits seep in.
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SCHMIDT: Do you ever look at the coverage today and think that the anonymous sources are overused?
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The bigger-than-Watergate analogy, of course, is one of the most overused tropes in American politics.
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The usual grandstanding rings hollow; the earnest notes feel forced; and the blanket condemnations clunky and overused.
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We started restoring fertility to the overused farmland, bringing in better health education and family planning information.
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As for "electability," an overused word, well, Trump won, and may again, so all bets are off.
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It feels like somewhat close to what I do as my job, but it's been so overused.
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These are merely suggestions of what terms to use and what often overused words should be avoided.
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But two board members said they saw whips being overused on some of the horses that died.
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It&aposs an overused term, but it truly does &aposdemocratize&apos access to investing in single stocks.
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But it's a word too often overused and misused by an industry that does little to earn it.
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This can end up being a low-key ether by exposing common or overused themes in their writing.
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Miller, he said, will want to make sure the commando troops are being deployed properly and not overused.
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The larger media narrative, to employ that much-overused phrase, is that Trump is creating his own reality.
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Last year, "problem solving" was called out as one of the most overused buzzwords on people's LinkedIn profiles.
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This is what your Microsoft account login will look like if you try to use an overused password.
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Such extras are overused partly because many doctors and patients mistakenly believe that they make a big difference.
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The term is ridiculously overused, for sure, and the tone that many of these articles take is patronizing.
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Neighbors also complained that their properties were used as toilets because the winery's facilities were overcrowded and overused.
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Some patients maintain the drugs are poison, while some experts have suggested they are just pricey, overused placebos.
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Innovation has become an overused word, but, for businesspeople like Fred Horowitz, it has a real monetary value.
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While some developing countries still need more access to antibiotics, policy needs to ensure they won't be overused.
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I think we have overused the word love to the extent that it no longer has any meaning.
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Every company wants to be "innovative," but "innovation" has become an overused buzzword that has lost its meaning.
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He exercised in a gym five times a week, washed his hands frequently, and even "overused" hand sanitizer.
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But, in my observation, even one election cycle later, with the technology outdated and overused, people stopped responding.
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And in no time their erudite comedy is as dumbed-down and tattered as an overused CliffsNotes guide.
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Drone shots are overused in movies, often predictably so; this sublime film, though, abounds in great, distinctive ones.
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How about costumes and choreography that showcase these talents without having to exploit the overused "sex sells" approach.
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This conclusory word is a curious one when overused in connection with a project whose essence is incompletion.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The theme of "the body" can feel overused in contemporary art exhibitions.
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First and foremost, Lebwohl credits part of the recent probiotic hype to greater recognition that antibiotics are widely overused.
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Props to the singer for repurposing the popular (and overused) millennial term "Netflix & chill" with a fun holiday-twist.
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He even allegedly overused the White House mess hall so much they had to ask him to stop going.
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Instead, this overused phrase may cue your friend to say they're "fine," when, in fact, their world has crumbled.
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Lawrence calls her a "fuckin hoe" — the most overused insult by hurt men everywhere — and storms off with Aparna.
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For once, I agree with this obnoxious, overused company maxim: diversity is important, but we shouldn't lower the bar.
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Papyrus was indeed already overused in 2009, when the movie came out, and it would have been mocked regardless.
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But we also have to confront the fact that we've overused antibiotics, and contend with the rise of superbugs.
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This is what political commentators meant when they deployed the overused metaphor of the dog that caught the car.
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He has argued in legal filings that it overused its power as Obama increasingly focused on climate change regulations.
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But they became overused, and the bugs they were invented to fight started to develop ways of resisting them.
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If that sentence sounded a little, well, overwrought, it's probably because the words in bold are a bit overused.
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The old Wall Street saying that "markets hate uncertainty" is a well-worn, overused expression, principally because it's true.
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If overused, it could cause the hair to dry and break more easily, leading to thinning and possible balding.
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"It may feel like it's an overused term, but that is still what our industry is about," Lee said.
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"Inclusive" is an overused word these days, but it's the best way to describe the feeling of the class.
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On reflection, the overused Gretzky aphorism atop this column minimizes the danger of ignoring that advice regarding COVID-19.
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Its overall existing rail system relies on an overused network congested with freight, plus slow and inefficient commuter trains.
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"We're actually at the place right now where our F-18 fleet is severely overused and flown," said Scharre.
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Some Republicans who want to limit immigration call humanitarian parole an overused back door to entering the United States.
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The overused criticism of EXIM as favoring large manufacturers like Boeing is misleading and hardly tells the whole story.
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Phrases like "close call" and "near miss" are often overused — but in this case they almost feel like an understatement.
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But I don't think it represents such a convincing argument that it requires hand-wringing and overused symbolic pearl-clutching.
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And one Welsh paper covered Sainsbury's announcement with an entire paragraph explaining why Millennials deserved that overused precipitation-based epithet.
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While sports metaphors are overused in the business world, I think LeBron's story is a worthy fable for any founder.
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The term "disruption" has become so overused as a proxy for a "cool Silicon Valley idea" that it's become cliche.
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She struggled to explain why she was running, overused cliches and gave lawyerly answers that sounded like she was squirming.
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It's been overused and virtually lost its meaning (although trying to define it in practical terms is actually pretty hard).
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There are also concerns that Tasers are occasionally misused or overused by officers, sometimes with fatal consequences, the website says.
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Kevin honestly feels the Trump bits are overused and knows that people are tired of the political banter from comedians.
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As much as the word empowering has been excessively bandied about and overused, this is exactly what her stance is.
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Proceed with caution Commodities appeared as an attractive alternative investment decades ago, but are now overused by investors, says Nelson.
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Ms. Rodríguez is an intense, exacting dancer; the word "fiery," so overused with respect to flamenco, actually suits her well.
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From Deadmau5 to Marshmello, masks have become overblown and overused, turning a symbol of anonymity into a symbol of fame.
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In a media environment where terms are often overstated and overused, these polling results are blockbuster numbers with blockbuster implications.
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But he says pre-implantation genetic screening (PGS) is overused, especially among young people, because of a yearning for information.
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Dialysis centers, for example, were billing not just for the dialysis but also for expensive drugs that were sometimes overused.
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A talented artist with trusting eyes and an overused bicycle, Chad was 31 when doctors diagnosed his inoperable brain tumor.
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No matter how many times you've heard the overused adage "don't worry, be happy," taking that advice could truly help.
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" But Mr. Buttigieg said he aimed to help "turn these principles from clichéd and overused words into effective political values.
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"It's a strong signal that this is an overused medication," said Dr. Juan Brito, an endocrinologist at the Mayo Clinic.
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When bacteria develop resistance to overused drugs, doctors are left with fewer and riskier weapons with which to fight infections.
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Mitch McConnell punishes Elizabeth Warren for reading a letter from a civil rights hero and an overused hashtag was born.
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The phrase actually has some literary origins according to Refinery29, but today, it's viewed as a cheesy and overused idiom.
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Phrases like "tribalism" and "identity politics" are probably overused these days, and their application often obscures more than it reveals.
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We have so few of these tools available right now that they've become overused, and pests have developed a resistance.
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" Bloomberg, who has apologized for the policy in the past, repeated his mea culpa Tuesday and admitted the practice was "overused.
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Although some critics of the APT have carped that the theme of post-colonialism was overused, the works withstand this critique.
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" — Christina Pacelli, Laverne Cox's stylist DENIM + FISHNETS "While this trend started off editorial and edgy, it soon became overused and messy.
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I am encouraging them to use their own voices as opposed to us doing some overused song as our prom theme.
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Some were merely having fun, pointing out ridiculous, overused catch-phrases; others were serving as a sly bit of cultural commentary.
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For instance: Hitler analogies have already been overused this election, but Kakutani's winking subtlety gets the job done much more effectively.
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The film would be thuddingly familiar if not for Waititi's willingness to grasp overused tropes and manipulate them into something new.
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He's so distracted by the overused font — seen everywhere from hookah bars to Shakira merchandise — that he even crashes his car.
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Just because President Donald Trump has overused Twitter since he got elected doesn't mean he has a monopoly on the platform.
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So-called preventive prison before trial is somewhat common in Peru and has been criticized by some as overused or unfair.
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The acrostic sign is one of the most overused fan tropes out there, so it's delightful to see some minor absurdity.
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They are following the standard overused leftist diatribe manual, labeling the appointees as a mix of Kremlin stooges, sexists, and racists.
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And though "really" is a really overused word in everyday conversation, it automatically invites skepticism when seen by its naked self.
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The young Ms. Williams, fortunately, is not overused for her adorability; rather, her character is presented as an avenue to maturity.
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"We can't save everyone," he says, as if that isn't a miserably overused line and conflict on any dozen doctor shows.
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Here's a list of the most overused words on LinkedIn — and more information on strategies to craft a profile without them.
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It's an overused motif in performance and one that borders on being juvenile — if there is nothing else anchoring the piece.
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She was using her platform to address the ills of society long before "woke" was overused by your liberal co-worker.
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He said while the term "artificial intelligence" is overused, the business of making predictions using algorithms and mathematics is here to stay.
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"Angles" is the most overused term in combat sports, but Lomachenko's are as vibrant and in your face as they can get.
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I inherited the police practice of stop-and-frisk, and as part of our effort to stop gun violence it was overused.
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Wendy L. Patrick, a deputy district attorney in San Diego, cited the phrase "believe me" as particularly overused by the GOP nominee.
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Most reasonable people can agree that straws are both necessary and overused, and should be dealt with responsibly by bars and restaurants.
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Eventually, it'll become overused and so wholly divorced from its original meaning, users tell The Verge, that it'll enter dead meme territory.
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IF: It's way overused in tech to be like, "Steve Jobs never would have allowed this," and you know, we can't know.
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Couple the poor handshaking skills with overused and mostly unfunny tiny hands jokes, and you've got yourself a meme in the making.
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Choosing H2O as the matter in question, I looked for phrases that included ice, water and steam that hadn't been overused already.
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The water flowing from the Colorado River is so overused that the river bed dries out before even reaching the California Gulf.
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"The grass is always greener," she says, and even though that's one of the most overused expressions, it sticks for a reason.
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By exploring her identity through disembodied body parts, a Puerto Rican artist is pondering feminism while taking aim at dismantling overused tropes.
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It's fair to say he would be galled by this very account, calling yet more attention to a fragile and overused landscape.
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The drug was overused in large part because there were few alternatives; aspirin, for example, didn't become available until the late 22015s.
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Although the term felt overused as soon as you heard it, metrosexual was an unavoidable feature of the early-aughts cultural landscape.
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Stick to your overused overrated and Harper sucks chants if you're really that loser that goes to a game to heckle someone.
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A summary of the forthcoming order, seen by Reuters, said past administrations "overused" the Antiquities Act that allows presidents to create monuments.
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"Community is an overused, corny word, but I felt it here like never before," said John Cooper, Sundance's director, as he teared up.
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For me, it's impossible to think about these two (sometimes overused) words without thinking of the people who are truly driving global change.
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I think 'safe space' is a concept that is often overused and under-appreciated to the point that it's become a buzz word.
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For him, "luxury" is a fashion buzzword that's overused, and sometimes, not applicable to some clothes that are marketed that way at all.
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When you hear the words ethics and autonomous vehicles, the age-old and often overused "trolley problem" thought experiment might spring to mind.
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Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling, Monica Valentinelli and Jaym Gates Tropes are an important part of literature, but they can be overused.
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But farm-state lawmakers have complained that the waivers are being overused in a way that is killing demand for corn-based ethanol.
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And there were loads of those throwback filters that we all once obsessively overused when we first began using the app (hello, Toaster).
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The reality is, it may feel like it's an overused term, but that is still what I think our industry is about. Right.
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We've rounded up 10 of the most overused and overhyped myths about millennial workers that you're so tired of hearing — and debunked them.
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However fractious and internally contradictory neoliberal thought may be, and however overused it can be as a term, it is describing something real.
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I know this very overused expression isn't intended to do so, but it makes me feel like I've been removed from everyday life.
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But their safe use requires a great deal of training, and there are concerns that Tasers are occasionally misused or overused by officers.
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As someone who's long had an ear to the ground for dance music's hottest trends, she seems to agree that it's been overused.
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It's a snappy replacement for the overused "tooootally," which reliably comes back from the dead when its substitutes, like TOTES, lose conversational currency.
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Mash-up may be an overused term for the seemingly random combinations that by now have become all but formalized in men's wear.
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The ethanol industry claims the exemptions have been overused, threatening demand for corn-based ethanol at a time when farmers are already struggling.
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There's also a saying, which probably is overused, but still might be germane here: Those who can, do, and those who can't, teach.
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When I got an iPhone, years later, I downloaded all the dumb apps that overused internet connectivity and even creepier stuff, like location services.
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"I inherited the police practice of stop-and-frisk, and as part of our effort to stop gun violence it was overused," he said.
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A summary of the forthcoming orders, seen by Reuters, say past administrations "overused" the Antiquities Act, putting more federal areas under protection than necessary.
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This year, ditch that overused cat costume and tired-out bar scene for a way scarier experience that, best of all, is totally free.
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So today Spotify launched a slightly redesigned version of its iOS app that (thankfully) ditches the overused "hamburger menu" that's become a lazy crutch.
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Movies described as "apocalyptic," a term so overused that it has seemingly lost its relevance and importance, typically provide a vision of societal rebirth.
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A stream of vaguely offensive jokes and throwaway thoughts, overused memes and overblown photos, tweets that are largely voiceless and indistinguishable from one another.
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Even if you claim that you hate overused, blatantly obvious tropes in fiction, they're there for a reason: We keep coming back for more.
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"The word fintech is a bit overused," said R.A. Farrokhnia, a professor at Columbia Business School and Columbia's School of Engineering and Applied Science.
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"Global ambassadorships are a bit overused and not too exciting," Hilfiger told The New York Times (in a super-snarky article on the collab).
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Why it matters: Innovation is an overused buzzword, but when the groups behind these two experts put their collective minds together, it's worth reading.
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The word "Kafkaesque" is overused, but it comes to mind every time I try to retrieve a package in the face of staggering indifference.
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"In my opinion it's overused," he said, with many brands jumping on the ceramic bandwagon following the success of Rado, IWC and Chanel's J12.
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Since then, "drain the swamp" has morphed into what may be the most overused verbiage by U.S. politicians to target the enemy among us.
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"Stop-Motion" is a too-busy response to Max Richter's plangent music, burdened by slow-motion projections and that overused choreographic prop, white dust.
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Adler was lawyerly, certainly, running down Kael's every repeated trope and overused word, but her attack was as humorless as Kael's reviews are pleasurable.
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We discuss our routines of self-care — and investigate the origins of the phrase and why it feels overused and even a little cliché.
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But when a person uses psilocybin, the brain reroutes some of the traffic onto the underused highways, freeing up space on the overused ones.
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Instead, "Bethel produced a feeling of friendship, camaraderie, and — an overused phrase — a sense of love among those present," as Time magazine put it.
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The piano pitches of Arvo Pärt's overused "Für Alina" hang in the air, high and spare, and undulant motion courses through all the gaps.
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A reporter on Friday also asked Mr. Duterte to clarify other comments in which he seemed to suggest he had overused a prescription painkiller.
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While I dislike using this tired and overused analogy, it must be said: the emperor has no clothes and the CPP is not clean.
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"The consultation helps the pharmacist offer important sexual healthcare advice to women and helps us prevent emergency contraception from being misused or overused," he said.
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But branch realities have been introduced, Loki is in one of them, and with that, the MCU has officially already overused its time travel privileges.
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The term "groundbreaking," in reference to television series, has been so overused (and frequently misused) over the decades that it has largely lost its meaning.
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My impressions at the time: That fast-talking style is fine for a 1940s screwball comedy, but after about five minutes, it's an overused gimmick.
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His pick for "Broadway classic" was Guys and Dolls' "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat," a song so tired that even Glee considered it overused.
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When antibiotics are overused, some bacteria learn to survive, multiply, and share their resistance genes with other bacteria even if those have not been exposed.
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But with that power comes responsibility, and perpetuating the easiest and most overused descriptor of the commander-in-chief isn't living up to that responsibility.
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Many Republicans feel presidents have overused that power; Rob Bishop, a Republican congressman from Utah, introduced a bill this autumn that would dramatically curtail it.
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The question of how a celebrity like Lopez remains so ageless is often met with a short list of overused and cliché answers: It's sleep!
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The term has been mangled and overused lately, to the point that it probably ought to be abandoned, but it does seem to apply here.
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Hatch's issue The move also comes after Western Republican lawmakers, including Utah Sen, Orrin Hatch, complained that Obama overused the law to over-protect land.
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The word is overused, but never has an exhibition come closer to capturing the feeling of being trapped in a huge, absurd, unfeeling bureaucratic system.
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Marie puts out a list every year of words that should be "banished from the Queen's English" for being overused, misused or just plain useless.
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The second reason is that by the time 2012 was around halfway over, the word was generally overused, and people were already tired of it.
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Afiniti on one hand calls itself a traditional AI company, but on the other, its CEO laments how overused and hackneyed the term has become.
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But critics say summonses can be overused–– partially because they are so easy to hand out––and disproportionately affect poor communities that are over-policed.
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The term "dreamlike" often gets overused and thrown around to describe flights of fancy, but The Lion and the Roc #1 fully fulfills the phrase.
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But too much of the discussion about this issue treats opioids as an unalloyed evil, as opposed to a valuable medication that is terribly overused.
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I often think the word "racist" is badly overused in American discourse, but the pattern by this president — birtherism, alt-right sympathy, Charlottesville — is unignorable.
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Mr. Bloomberg, in a statement Tuesday morning, argued that he had "inherited the police practice of stop-and-frisk," and acknowledged that it was overused.
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The U.S. highway system "is outdated, overused, underfunded and in desperate need of modernization," Alison Premo Black, the association's chief economist, said in a statement.
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This photo — often seen illustrating US news coverage of Iran — is not a particularly typical scene, and has drawn criticism for being overused and misleading.
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"Because ground robots may allow deadly force to be applied more safely and easily, they raise the danger that they will be overused," Stanley said.
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Those restrictions cut off the companies' access to groundwater in areas identified as "critical" and "dark zones", where the water table is overused or very low.
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So is understanding what we mean when we use this overused phrase, and realizing there are a lot of ways to use it lazily or unproductively.
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Grace Victoria Cox plays Veronica, the character Winona Ryder made iconic (an overused word, but not here), and James Scully plays J.D. (the Christian Slater role).
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He also recommends steering clear of protein-packed conditioners, which can cause breakage if overused, and to incorporate a color-extending mask every couple of washes.
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And if you really have to think about it like an ecosystem I know that the term is overused sometimes but it encompasses many different things.
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All music picks up where previous artists left off but too-clever nods to the past and nostalgia can be overused to the point of dilution.
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The words "instant classic" are sometimes overused, but when it comes to SNL's Undercover Boss sketch with Kylo Ren, there's really no other description more suitable.
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Indeed did indeed become his favorite word, which, like the rest of his new life, he never quite grasped: overused and misused often to my embarrassment.
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For years I got used to two sad sights: a set of overused Gillette cartridges in the bathroom cabinet and my scruffy face in the mirror.
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Though Uncharted is looked at as a franchise driven by story, back in 2009, it became a service game, long before "service" became an overused buzzword.
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"We need the tool when we need the tool, but the fact is we've overused the tool to offset the negatives of industrial production," he said.
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A 62-word puzzle, such as this one, presents a particular challenge to balance fresh entries, fresh clues, not too many names, and few overused words.
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The bottom right featured FREE LOVE, HATPINS, ATE A TON, WILD PIG, TO DO LIST but at the cost of PELAGE, HEL and the overused ASSESSES.
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"All-of-the-above" might be one of the most overused energy policy slogans ever adopted by U.S. politicians, but there's a fairly simple explanation why.
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Now there have been efforts coming out of here and elsewhere to try and, I hate the overused term, but disrupt politics and how it works.
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Given that it says "wife" and not the casual and typically overused "wifey," all signs point to the latter — and Baldwin's name change appears to confirm it.
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I regret to inform you that while the tweets are extremely cute, they're also kind of old, take too much effort to successfully compose, and are overused.
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"The phrase 'constitutional crisis' has been overused, but ... certainly it's a constitutional crisis," he said in response to a question about the term by CNN's Alisyn Camerota.
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On Thursday, the astrophysicist decided to tweet a complaint about about the word "awesome," which he is clearly sick of and believes is overused by today's youth.
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"[It's] definitely overused," says Kami Mattioli, a digital marketer in New York who used the phrase in irony last month in a tweet about her fake website.
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The view of women as modified men "continues the overused trope that female bodies are unnatural or abnormal, thereby ascribing normality only on male bodies," says Bonaparte.
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In this case, the overused VC cliche of "how can I help" is like a doctor asking the wounded patient, "so how can I treat you today".
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The purpose would be firm: to mandate a high level of spark and originality in any fiction that draws from the incredibly overused work of H.P. Lovecraft.
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That's the proposition from Israeli company TechSee, which is building a customer support platform using two of 2017's most overused buzzwords: augmented reality and artificial intelligence.
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We are so fond of it, in fact, that we've written an entire article on it, and how it is chronically overused to the point of redundancy.
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Echoing one of his already overused arguments, Biden pointed back to the good old days when politicians found common ground, no matter the hateful things they believed.
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Critics rating: 1%Overused and forced humor, a stale and incomprehensible plot, and poor acting all make "Disaster Movie" one of the worst movies of the 2000s.
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Wafts of gangrenous infection wrapped in the rancid stench of overused blood-soaked bandages fused with the smell of a fear fed on the emptiness of hunger.
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As a tool, it was eventually overused to the point that it became toxic itself, but by then the message was clear: Don't be like this guy.
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Blurring documentary and drama with the overused tic of playing real-life footage over the end credits, Berlinger still leaves Bundy no more than a slick enigma.
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Cindy Chao, jewelry designer, Hong Kong Experience alone will not be enough in luxury — it's fleeting, an overused word, and everything can be seen as an experience.
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In addition, the consequences of injecting cathinones—like skin erosion and large holes at overused injecting sites—predisposes users to cellulitis and other potentially serious bacterial infections.
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"The most overused metaphor is that there's a war for talent right now, but it's actually not a war, it's a race," said HireVue CEO Kevin Parker.
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This might be difficult for a Tuesday, but I'd rather take a chance on an interesting and amusing clue rather than settle for something boring and overused.
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"Kafkaesque" is overused as an adjective to describe authoritarian regimes, but one aspect of the word is apt — the comic absurdity of how power is sometimes wielded.
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"They are saying we need new ways to pay for the drugs, but we also have a role to play in ensuring they are not overused," he said.
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I love the hilariously overused "piercing cackle" sound effect; the videos' incongruously realistic iPhones and brand-name snack foods; and the occasional dip into pure, startling body horror.
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Giving this ability to developers could quickly prove annoying if it's overused, but Sonos will give customers ultimate control over whether they want to permit them at all.
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If you're looking to breathe a touch of creative into your text messages — or switch things up beyond overused emoji — look no further than the Japanese Kana keyboard.
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The term unicorn quickly became overused as startups stayed private longer by pushing IPOs off as long as they could, and the capital world decided it was fine.
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"Everyone's going to say machine learning and AI, they're overused catch phrases, but it's really that there are savvy payments professionals pushing us to do more," Benson said.
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" --via Twitter Tom Rothman, chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Motion Picture Group "Original and genius are two very overused words in the world today, but Stan was both.
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"The narrative that streaming is killing theatrical is really overused and misleading," said Phil Contrino, the director of media and research for the National Association of Theater Owners.
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ATLANTA — "Visionary" is a term that has become somewhat overused in the outsider art field — and over on the contemporary-art side of the broader art market, too.
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If all that wasn't enough, Deutsch rounded out his commentary by making a statement about Warren that's so comically overused it's the subject of a cutting McSweeney's parody.
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Words like "heritage" and "tradition" often seem overused in the watch world, but one house that can justly lay claim to illustrious ancestors is the Geneva watchmaker DeWitt.
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"I hate to use the word 'authenticity,' because that's been co-opted and overused at this point, but I think people are craving sort of realness," she said.
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For a person with depression, overused highways can lead to more negative thoughts, self-criticisms, and overwhelming feelings, so psilocybin has the potential to help decrease those effects.
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The Peloton sales pitch is polished and appealing in that Apple sort of way, and although I realize that metaphor is overused, it works uniquely well in this case.
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And if Trump were to refuse to hand over documents or tax returns ordered by the courts, he could turn overused predictions of a looming constitutional crisis into reality.
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Steady, bludgeoning breakdowns have become overused in hardcore-influenced metal, but when Pantera released Cowboys From Hell in 1990 this form of crushing hypnotism hadn't yet become very popular.
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Radiation emanating from North Korea's overused, crumbling nuclear test region could reportedly threaten northern Japan, as strengthening winds from the northwest blow the radiation across the Sea of Japan.
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What was once a fun emblem for your gym tee has now morphed into a tired and overused symbol that many of us never want to see ever again.
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"Magical" is such an overused word in photo headlines, but these photographs really are magical – in the carvings themselves, and in your use of fire as a light source.
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Overused words like landmark, historic, crisis, watershed, make-or-break and the like give the impression that the writer does not trust the facts themselves to convey any drama.
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" The owner is on a crusade to save the English language, grousing, "This is the most overused, annoying word in the English language and we will not tolerate it.
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The companies have pledged to boost regenerative farming practices, revamp product portfolios to become less reliant on overused crops, and identify actions to eliminate deforestation and protect natural ecosystems.
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Jerry Nadler, said on Wednesday that while the term "constitutional crisis" had been overused, it was an apt description for the ongoing impasse between the two branches of government.
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But the expression has not become so overused as to have frightened away a prominent group of investors from the next big industry they are eager to Uberize: trucking.
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In Silicon Valley, it's the tech world, there's a crazy, delirious sense of wild optimism about the power of technology to change the world, to use an overused phrase.
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It's a shame Mr. Bellorini has opted to layer predictable music over a handful of scenes, including Arvo Pärt's vastly overused "Spiegel im Spiegel"; his cast needs no help.
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Late in its season 43 premiere, Saturday Night Live surprised viewers in the best way possible by taking on two pretentious movies — and one unbearably overused font — at once.
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Still, skeptics are right to point out that the dollar's role has indirectly funded American interventionism and that dollar sanctions have been overused, provoking the ire of American allies.
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Both have been used in The Times since; this is now the fourth appearance for ESCAPE ROOM, in fact, so it's arguably more overused than fresh at this point.
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"I'm tired of the farm-to-table cliché," he said, saying the term had become overused by people who were trying to ride a trend and not adopting the idea.
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Check out the below video to see how the term has been overused, and misused, to attack everything from the New York Times to fruitcake, to the point of meaninglessness.
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However, some of the most distinctive properties associated with DSLRs, such as that shallow depth of field, quickly became trendy and overused, resulting in too many films looking the same.
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While many people don't think of caffeine as a drug, coffee and energy drinks can be risky when overused, which they often are at festivals and parties with challenging schedules.
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Ernesto Blume warned that the use of "preventive prison," or pre-trial detention, must not be overused as the country grapples with its biggest corruption scandal in nearly two decades.
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"This new policy limits the overused practice of requiring providers to stay silent when the government accesses personal data stored in the cloud," explains Brad Smith, Microsoft's chief legal officer.
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When we moved, we got rid of all our overused and stained Tupperware, so as a brown bagger packing leftovers most days, I desperately need new ones for my meals.
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I think that she has this ambition that I cannot fathom, this belief in herself, and I think—this is such an overused word—but she is such a survivor.
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President John F. Kennedy's "moonshot" rallying cry is overused; let's not mischaracterize the reason for achieving election security and convenience: We don't "do it because it's hard," for the challenge.
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Each is a reminder that there's more than one way to control the narrative (to use the most overused phrase du jour) and to translate history into the present tense.
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Perhaps they've been overused, or their original meaning has been twisted, or they're simply not relevant anymore — or worse, they reveal something about our culture that is unhealthy or damaging.
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Our verbal sensitivity—performed and taught by us, is a matured and fine-tuned tool, but when overused, it can imply white as the only thing deserving of being right.
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"One of the problems with the B-1 is we've used that airplane and overused it over many years, and it's broken it in many ways," Nahom said last month.
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Though he has led a brutal crackdown on drug addicts, Mr. Duterte seemed to imply in his remarks to the business leaders that he had overused an addictive drug himself.
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"I think the Watergate example is overused, and we don't know where all of this will lead, but just think about the slower pace of that investigation," Mr. Bauer said.
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"Advertisers shot themselves in the foot with Black Friday — they diluted the term and overused it and confused the consumer," said Jacqueline R. Wachholz, an advertising expert at Duke University.
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But while there is a danger in peace bonds being overused, police do have to get the consent of the attorney general and a judge in order to obtain one.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Top British pharmacy Boots has come under fire for refusing to cut the cost of 'morning after' emergency contraceptive pills, saying they might be "misused or overused".
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Pai has suggested that the TCPA, meant to give consumers a way to legally combat the callers, has been overused, and has pointed to cases that he argues are excessively litigious.
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In a statement, Bloomberg said that Trump's deleted tweet "is the latest example of his endless efforts to divide Americans," and acknowledged that "stop-and-frisk" was "overused" in New York.
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Related: Adorably Spooky Stop-Motion Animation Explores Life After Debt Searching for the Origin of the Internet's Most Overused Weed Photo Let This Goop Rainbow Music Video Melt Your Brain Forever
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When Archie Moore was interviewed by Sports Illustrated ahead of his shot at Rocky Marciano's heavyweight title, The Old Mongoose—the epitome of scientific boxing—declared that Marciano overused the uppercut.
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As antibiotics are overused both in people and to prevent disease in livestock, the fear is that bacteria will develop resistance to all available treatments for when they are truly needed.
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The lead single of that album, "2 + 2 = 5," is a reference to a famous scene from George Orwell's 1984, thus ensuring "Orwellian" as the most overused adjective in Radiohead reviews.
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Although Silicon is overused as a prefix, in the case of Saxony it rings true with some of the biggest technology and chip companies, such as Infineon and GlobalFoundries, based there.
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The building was becoming ever more bizarre and surreal (to use an overused term, but in this case, I think it's relevant) and black and white just wasn't doing it justice.
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Occasionally, he can aim for a little too much intimacy, pretending to withhold judgment — "We will never know" is an overused phrase — when he slyly wants us to imagine the worst.
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But in a world where avocado toast, kombucha and wheat berries have become overused signifiers, Kali infuses them once more with meaning that skirts preciousness in favor of seriously beautiful food.
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Dorie Clark, adjunct professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and the author of "Entrepreneurial You," said asking to pick someone's brain has become overused to the point of thoughtlessness.
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Refiners argue the waivers are crucial to keeping small refining facilities in business, but agriculture representatives say they have been overused and hurt farmers by eroding demand for corn-based ethanol.
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Refiners argue the waivers are crucial to keeping small refining facilities in business, but agriculture representatives say they have been overused and hurt farmers by eroding demand for corn-based ethanol.
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You know, I feel like it's an overused word, this idea of authenticity and transparency, but it's very important if you want to attract and retain young people in your organization.
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"OK boomer" soon became ubiquitous but was eventually overused, most notably by millennials, who co-opted and killed it as a meme even faster than they killed chain restaurants and boobs.
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Pros: Melts ice in temperatures as low as -40 degrees Fahrenheit, acts quickly, has a variety of alternate usesCons: Has trouble with thick ice, can damage plants and grass if overused
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All of these could be applied in a reasonable way, or they could be overused to hide an excessive amount of information — it's not clear how Barr will apply them yet.
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I think it would do Lenovo some good to move away from the overused black-and-red color scheme that every other gaming laptop makers seems to abuse and try something else.
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An example of how crazy YouTube annotations could get if overused "We will stop showing existing annotations to viewers starting January 15, 2019," YouTube explained, also confirming the removal of the feature.
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That's when Scott discovered this wasn't a typical casting call: she and four-month-old Reese were being turned into holograms, a term that's used (and sometimes overused) to describe volumetric video.
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And it's arguably been overused, applied to anyone from work by psychiatric patients to prison inmates to any vaguely eccentric self-taught artist, leading some to question what "outsider artist" even means.
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The president took action after a six-month evaluation of the practice by Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, who examined more broadly whether it was overused in prisons across the United States.
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The classic mirror selfie is there, as are many overused poses and shots, from the king of travel cliches like holding the Leaning Tower of Pisa up to the artful salad shot.
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Image via Jane Manchun Wong It's reassuring to hear that one of the world's most popular, but also overused, social media apps is going to put user health over engagement and revenue.
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Just take a look at the best campaign ad of 218, produced for Democratic candidate David Brill: Apologies for the overused media superlative, but weaponizing your opponent's family against them is brilliant.
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As a result, maybe immersive content is more exhausting than it needs to be, sort of the way music synthesizers were way overused on pop music when those machines became widely available.
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Against that parsimonious impulse, however, we should balance another statistical reality: The very best, those truly worthy of the overused term "superstar," tend to enjoy longer peaks and far milder downward slopes.
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A program by a large public employer in Oregon raised cost-sharing for sleep studies, upper gastrointestinal endoscopies, advanced imaging services and certain types of overused procedures, like surgery for back pain.
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Drugs found in sexual enhancement products included sildenafil, tadalafil and vardenafil, all active ingredients in prescription medications intended for erectile dysfunction, which, when overused, can cause serious damage to the blood vessels.
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The fact that a necessary facet of diabetes care is increasingly out of reach — while unnecessary and potentially harmful care is easily overused — illustrates how much work still needs to be done.
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There are more obvious ways to pull this off — voiceover narration being the most overused — but a great director can situate you in point of view through careful shot selection and composition.
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"Authentic" is an overused word in movie reviews, but there's no better way to describe The Big Sick: Every inch of it feels true, and not just because it's drawn from real life.
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But sometimes the bit can feel stale or overused, like when every man working at the co-op twists his fingers through his bedroom hair and confesses to being a diehard Phish fan.
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"The Afghan Special Forces have been singled out as the crown jewel -- more disciplined, efficient, effective than any other unit of the Afghan forces, but they've been over extended and overused," Kugelman said.
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Hey, there's a Simpsons marathon going on, and there's little reason to watch a Bears game other than to drink yourself miserable and stupid, so please enjoy my overused reference to the show.
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Victor Hedman, Anton Stralman, and the overused Dan Girardi have been getting killed at 5-on-5 by the Capitals too, but McDonagh was supposed to be a difference-maker playing behind Hedman.
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While pondering that question, we hit upon Jean, which had the appeal of being simple, classic but not overused, and nicely resonant with the names of both of our fathers, John and Jacques.
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Brandon Morrow has been almost comically overused, with tonight representing the reliever's 22th postseason appearance this year — the record is 25, which was set by Paul Assenmacher of the Cleveland Indians in 93.
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"Iconic" is an overused word, but the images recorded during that mission deserve it: the blast-off moment, the American flag planted on the lunar surface, Neil Armstrong reflected in Buzz Aldrin's helmet.
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While jail and prison authorities and unions have argued that it is a necessary tool to maintain safety and order, former prisoners, researchers and reform advocates say it is overused and harms inmates.
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This is — you overused the word "golden age" — but I think for someone like you in particular, you can't get your middle-tier movies made anymore, but you've got Netflix competing with HBO.
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Perhaps best known as that thing Teen Vogue accused President Donald Trump of doing to America—intentionally undermining reality—gaslighting has emerged as a buzzword that's arguably overused as a synonym for disagreement.
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But "quirky and charming" has become an overused descriptor for a certain type of indie game, and Wide Ocean Big Jacket is more than just its aesthetic, it's heartfelt, funny, and most importantly, grounded.
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Crafting a mythology around the Hand is a solid idea for the future, but just as Daredevil's second season overused ninjas until they became boring, the Hand's story in this show is similarly sleepy.
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Medium had a decent albeit overused icon design, using the first letter of its name rather simply, and while it could have used some improvement, the new icon is not in the right direction.
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In Gaza, where the seepage of saltwater and sewage into an overused aquifer raises the risk of disease, a blockade by Israel and Egypt has made it harder to build and run desalination plants.
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Self-care is a little overrated and an overused catchphrase these days, but when I ponder these questions about Pope, the main one that connects them is: Is she getting any care at all?
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I mean, not really, no: I know how time works, and I know how it passes, and the difference between 2017 and 2013 is night and day and a bunch of other overused sentiments.
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"We're looking forward to a new lease on life, to use an overused idiom, and restarting and being able to build a sanctuary for our children and our family in north America," he said.
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Doctors in the study also overused medical terms that patients might not understand, said co-author Dr. Toby Campbell, chief of palliative care at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
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" The Clinton campaign was quick to tout Kaine's handling of his attack dog role to supporters, blasting out in an email that he "took on Donald Trump's most overused and false promise: 'Believe me.
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Insta-fail situations wouldn't be much fun if overused, though, so obviously there'd have to be a window of opportunity for player reaction—back to that run or hide decision, the emphasis on survival.
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While it is often an overused and vague term, this year is showing that the "historic debt" not only has a definition, but it is becoming all too real for Americans heading into 2202.
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As to whether or not Bradley would retire, he gave similar back-and-forth thoughts, dropping the overused phrase of "going back to the drawing board" in regards to the future of his career.
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It may not be obvious to everyone that natural products like senna, aloe, rhubarb root, buckthorn, castor oil, and licorice―all of which have been packaged as diet teas―can be damaging when overused.
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Even when the director resorts to outright cliche — the climactic use of "Carmina Burana," for instance, one of the most overused pieces of music in cinema — it's clear that he's commenting on its familiarity.
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Some of the latest data, from 20183-'16, shows 10 percent of children and adolescents ages 4 to 17 were diagnosed with ADHD in the US. Proof positive meds are way overused for #ADHD.
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It's as if the overused George Santayana quote — "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" — somehow made its way from our world to Westeros, becoming a universal mantra along the way.
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"Iconic" is an overused word, but the images recorded during the Apollo 113 mission deserve it: the blast-off moment, the American flag planted on the lunar surface, Neil Armstrong reflected in Buzz Aldrin's helmet.
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And as Megan pointed out, her use as a female rival / delay tactic for Eleven rejoining the group through the thoroughly overused "obvious misunderstanding" trope was one of the more exasperating moments of the season.
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LONDON - Up to 70 percent of hysterectomies in the United States, a quarter of knee replacements in Spain and more than half the antibiotics prescribed in China are inappropriate, overused healthcare, researchers said on Monday.
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This year we learned that solitary confinement — keeping prisoners in their cells for 2628 hours or more per day for long durations — is a harmful practice, and one that is widely overused in this country.
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Source: U.S. PIRG Education Fund Graphic: Robin Muccari / NBC News At issue is the rise of drug-resistant bacteria, which occurs when the antibiotics used to control and kill germs are overused or used incorrectly.
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Although the term cultural appropriation has been overused to the point where the meaning seems to have eroded, the reality is that it's a form of oppression that marginalized communities are forced to deal with.
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I hate to use the term gender fluidity, because I feel like it's overused and hyped-up, but I like to balance and play with masculine and feminine, and sporty and a bit more traditional.
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While the term can be overused, "Many schools of therapeutic thought acknowledge the childlike side to our personalities that 'the inner child' refers to," writes Sheri Jacobson, Ph.D., clinical director of Harley Therapy in London.
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So why, then, did I find myself surprisingly moved by the last 20 minutes of the film, even as it attempted to set a touching moment to the overused John Legend song "All of Me"?
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At this point, the price cuts on the Essential Phone have gone way past sensible, and while I know the phrase is overused, for this little money, for $335, the PH-1 really is a steal.
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It's immediately reminiscent of the grainy, sparkly keyboard refrain in "Yummy," but I'm not mad about some continuity — as long as the same effects and chords don't get overused and make the album sound too monotonous.
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Despite all this, we don't yet know whether redactions will be applied in a reasonable and limited way — or whether they'll be overused to hide an excessive amount of information, with pages and pages blacked out.
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He said that while he realized that AI is an overused term these days, after talking to 30 customers he heard over and over again that Vectra's AI-driven solution was a differentiator over competing products.
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According to 2015 survey done by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), over 119 million Americans aged 12 and overused prescription psychotherapeutic drugs, such as Prozac, Zoloft, and most popular of all, Xanax.
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A creative writing instructor I had in grad school once declared, "I never want to see anyone shrug in your work," calling it cliché and overused — a lazy way to show a character's indecision or ambivalence.
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Mechanical Turk is an immensely attractive tool for researchers because it makes it cheap and easy to do survey experiments like this, but it has prompted some criticism from social scientists who think it's being overused.
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"The problem is that bacteria become resistant to antibiotics, particularly if they are overused, and yet they underpin modern medicine," she said, explaining that about 25,000 people across Europe die every year of drug resistant infections.
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But the Colorado River — once so overused that it no longer reached the Sea of Cortez — now, thanks to decades of conservation and smart water policies, pushes through a forest of reeds to the sea again.
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Although wedding-set films have been overused in some of the more cliche romantic comedies, there are a few films that do the genre so right, you'd think you were a guest at the wedding ceremony.
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That word, "immersive," will undoubtedly feel overused as people talk about the ride, but there&aposs no other way to succinctly describe just how cool it feels to step into the various areas of this ride.
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A single dose of clindamycin carries the same risk of C. diff infection as a prolonged course of the antibiotic, the researchers wrote, making it all the more alarming that clindamycin was among the overused antibiotics.
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The Department of Education is clamping down on the use of exclamation marks by seven-year-olds in grammar exams this summer, The Sunday Times reports, because they're being overused in social media activity and text messages.
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Well-meaning liberal uncles worldwide chatter "haha so true!" while retweeting whatever quick-fingered laughmaster managed to get the first response to a Trump tweet calling him a "sentient dumpster fire" or some other instantly overused insult.
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Legends are often pure shit—the word "legend" has been overused as a superlative so much in the past few decades, we've forgotten that it's also a synonym for "lie"—but Smith was the realest of deals.
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As much as I find myself irked by his constant (and I mean CONSTANT) self-promotion and overused one-liners about being better than "them," I gotta admit that the 41-year-old is full of surprises.
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Time is money might be an overused idiom, but it's unbelievably easy to become over-scheduled, and if I spend my entire day in meetings, I have little time to devote to my own tasks and priorities.
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Note that "insubordination" is my word, not Trump's—the largest word in his vocabulary, both literally and figuratively, is "tremendous," which he, much like the word "literally," has overused to the extent it no longer holds meaning.
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"Part of this is to examine an overused term in political discourse," Mr. Reese said, adding that discussion around their pieces tends to be about stagnant incomes, concentration of wealth and dwindling opportunity for working-class people.
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Jonathan Miller of the appraisal firm Miller Samuel said he defines the top 10 percent of the market, everything above $5.8 million, as luxury — a term he said has become the most overused word in real estate.
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I realized that plenty of the breakdowns and esoteric subject matters used in underground metal were actually overused, and that one cult death metal track about the anticosmic ether was very similar to all of the others.
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"Iconic" is an overused word, but the images recorded during the Apollo 214 mission in 22019 truly are that: the blastoff moment, the American flag planted on the lunar surface, Neil Armstrong reflected in Buzz Aldrin's helmet.
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It also creates a societal risk because overall resistance can grow when antibiotics are overused, for example when someone with a U.T.I. is prescribed the wrong medication and has to take more than one course of antibiotics.
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Em dashes can still be overused—they can distract the reader from the point of the sentence—in many cases ruining the point—and in others just making the sentence hard to read—also ruining the point.
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It also creates a societal risk because overall resistance can grow when antibiotics are overused, for example when someone with a U.T.I. is prescribed the wrong medication and has to take more than one course of antibiotics.
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Fate only has one real visual flourish — re-timing the action into slow-motion, then back out — and that move has been so overused for so long, it feels like Fate was shot in 2007 instead of 2017.
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There's a regrettable incident where Eleanor and Maddie are kidnapped — one of the most overused cop drama clichés of them all — but it's handled quickly, and it forces Bosch into even greater proximity with the two of them.
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The main goal of kinesio tape is to provide active folks with a better alternative to traditional athletic tape, which is used to support injured or overused body parts while they heal and reduce the pain they cause.
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But Maynard, who voluntarily broached the subject of Harambe during our interview, maintains that Fiona's rise to fame was not specifically engineered to make the internet at large forget about one of the 2016's most overused memes.
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The series, based on a novel by Natalie Baszile and using female directors for each of its first-season episodes, employs one of the most overused setups there is, the all-come-home trope, to get things started.
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In the past year he has also taken aim at statins, the most widely prescribed drugs in the world, arguing in academic papers and on some of Britain's leading news programs that the cholesterol-lowering medications are overused.
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The killer clown trope is overused to the point where it's turned generic, but what the general public doesn't know about actual, flesh-and-blood-and-rubber-nose clowns could fill one of those secretly massive tiny cars.
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I know this has to do with the shop that opened in the vacant spot underneath my apartment this past month, but I still try to run through the possibility that I overused my heat… 10:55 a.m.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Top British pharmacy Boots has cut the price of 'morning after' emergency contraceptive pills after coming under fire for refusing to reduce the cost of the medicine, initially saying it might be "misused or overused".
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I think the word "distrust" is overused a little bit in the sense that I think a lot of people say that they "distrust" something not because it's not trustworthy but because they actually just don't agree with it.
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This week we'll focus on the city of Austin, gain insight into Uber's spending habits, do a little scooter number crunching, the Tesla Model Y, and the so-called "race" — an overused and inaccurate term — to develop autonomous vehicles.
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She was brought in almost two years ago with the understanding that she would shape the gallery's program into one that is "socially minded" (a term she prefers to what she sees as the overused and imprecise "social engagement").
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It feels very good to pull off (provided you're on the right side of it) but the technique is incredibly overused, and somewhat antithetical to the kind of consistently skillful and active play that Overwatch encourages with other characters.
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Maybe pomegranate seeds and queso fresco are overused as a colorful garnish, I thought on my most recent visit, which happened to be my fourth — and yes, that is more visits than are strictly necessary to write a review.
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Editorial New York City's police commissioner, James O'Neill, showed admirable candor in a recent training video when he admitted that the department had "overused and sometimes misused" its stop-and-frisk program in past years — particularly in minority neighborhoods.
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The way Foer pounces on that overused Tolstoy quote about happy families and then twists it just a little, dives off into that long litany of slights from the universe, and finally slams the door shut with "goodbye": It's fun.
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"Finally" is one of those words that gets overused in tech news stories, but I think it's fair to say that it's taken a pretty long time for Reddit to release its first official, native apps for iOS and Android.
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We can't really know whether the redactions have been applied in a reasonable and limited way, and it was simply necessary to redact whole pages of the report — or whether they've been overused to hide an excessive amount of information.
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Three White Light programs during the final week of the festival, which ended this weekend with the American premiere of Kaija Saariaho's opera "Only the Sound Remains," manifested quite different dimensions of spirituality, an overused term for a profound concept.
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As a constructor, you have to balance the benefits of including a lot of 7+ entries with the inevitable crossing of 3 and 4-letter words, some of which are overused or not easy to clue in a fresh way.
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While the words "breaking news" are sometimes overused, in the last 10 days there has been a surge of ominous events all pointing to an escalation by Trump and his White House of a war against Mueller and the investigation.
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And while I'm the first to say that a lot of reporting must use anonymous sources and there's a kind of reporting that's very very important, maybe the most important, that needs to be done that way, it is way overused.
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"Glow" is a term that gets overused quite a bit in the beauty industry, but the new Sunday Riley C.E.O Glow Vitamin C + Turmeric Face Oil is one product that has truly lived up to the hype, in my opinion.
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"Radical" is the most overused word in artspeak, but there isn't a more concise term to describe the material and spiritual break represented by the traversal from canvas to paper, and for Spero, the change wasn't evolutionary, but deliberate and decisive.
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Well, myself and my team help exploit to massive effect at Facebook, to a scale that's unprecedented, and underneath that we built a lot of very nuanced ways of understanding network effects, and I put it in air quotes because it's so overused.
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I wanted to ask my friend why he offered such a brief but unsettling answer—attempting to point out what that meant, the severity of such a statement and how it seemed sometimes almost overused, to the point of being nearly worthless.
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Created just 10 years ago out of Fort Bragg in North Carolina, the 28th Ordnance Company has become one of the Army's most decorated units; it is also one of the most overused and under-resourced assets of the war on terror.
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Compared to a wide range of types of hacks, the attack against Facebook appears to have been genuinely "sophisticated," a term that is sometimes overused in relation to security breaches but applies here and means the investigation could take a long time.
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"The water was a kind of embarrassing secret, the unloved daughter, neglected, while the parks were doted on, fussed over, overused," muses the narrator of Teju Cole's novel "Open City" (2011), about Manhattan, an island, one of America's mythic ports of entry.
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Writing that solitary confinement has been "increasingly overused ... with heartbreaking results," Obama said he was ordering federal penitentiaries to cease using the punishment on juvenile offenders -- in the federal justice system, those under 18 -- and on prisoners who committed non-serious offenses.
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So, instead of defaulting to a job title, add a bit more, like this: Experienced Writer Creating Content for Fortune 500 Companies Social Media Expert Seeking Nonprofit Opportunities Use keywords (not overused buzzwords) that make it easy for others to find you.
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Farm state lawmakers have complained that the hardship waivers are being overused in a way that is killing demand for corn-based ethanol, and they were likely to criticize the waiver awarded to one of the world's biggest and most profitable companies.
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Car analogies are overused, but in this case it fits: just as only car enthusiasts really ought to pay attention to what happens at auto shows, so too only tech enthusiasts will care about the battle between the 22020K Association and the CTA.
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"I think that transformation sometimes is an overused word, but to me, actually, changing the way a business is performing, whether its from an industry perspective or whether it's just the next phase of the company's journey, is a very important skill set," Denholm said.
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But when a prion comes into contact with its healthy counterpart, it somehow forces the normal protein to become a copy of itself, sparking a chain of infection that over years, sometimes decades, hollows out the brain, causing it to resemble an overused sponge.
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But Stanley said the easy and relatively safe use of ground robots that can deploy deadly force could mean they could be overused: "Remote uses of force raise policy issues that should be carefully considered...and should remain confined to extraordinary situations," he said.
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Overused clichés like: "No means no," which sound empowering at first, are good in theory but can be easily disputed in court, especially when heavy drinking is involved by both parties and the legal definition of consent is often unclear and varies state by state.
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As the title suggests, if Wood had done nothing else, he would be immortal for "American Gothic" (1930), for which the overused term "icon" is actually suitable: the dour and pitchfork-wielding duo that somehow epitomizes both the upside and downside of being American.
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The expression to give voice to is severely overused these days, and yet that is exactly what the exhibition is attempting: to give voice to a group of women whose lives were written out of history because they were considered too marginal to bother with.
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The Trump administration's use of such waivers to save the oil industry money has become a lightning rod of controversy for the powerful corn lobby, which claims the exemptions have been overused and threaten demand for corn-based ethanol at a time farmers are already struggling.
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The other nice touches are environmental items and vehicles that mix up the standard breach formula, which can feel overused after the first few dozen times you're forced to break through a closed door or jump through a pane of glass into a room full of enemies.
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In the Bret Easton Ellis adaptation, the track doesn't play over a scene of violence but the person for whom the track has meaning is violent; a serial killer motivated by the power of this overly familiar, perhaps even remarkably overused, Katrina and the Waves song.
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"Millennials may be criticized for using jargon only they understand, but when it comes to overused and aggravating sayings around the office, most generations of Americans were on the same page about the negative impact language could be having on perceptions of intelligence," the study found.
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Plants long forbidden in tasteful circles — tropicals like birds of paradise, protea, palm fronds and monstera leaves; cheap romance-and-restaurant stalwarts like tea roses, carnations and baby's breath; and even that overused signifier of banal good taste, the orchid — are all being lovingly and brazenly revived.
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The 'Avengers: Endgame' directors kindly ask fans not to ruin the movie's ending Beyond a "peak geek" moment, the twin arrival of these events -- an overused term in entertainment circles that actually applies in these cases -- says something about both the "show" and "business" side of the media landscape.
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Unfortunately, as with many startup sites at the time, the site was so full of Web 1.0 bells and whistles that I (a longtime Bowie fan) found it difficult to use the site (I blame Flash, which was overused by many sites at the time) and stopped visiting.
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Sure, the makers of "The Colorado," a new eco-documentary, could have gone the easy route and used Barber's Adagio for Strings as the soundtrack for its elegiac shots of parched landscapes punished by drought and insufficiently fed by what they charge is an "overused, over-promised" Colorado River.
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It's like wine in the sense that it's about having that terroir, having that expression; I know that's really overused nowadays in talk about singular food products, but I don't think there is a singular way to define what vinegar tastes or feels like or what it should be.
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So clearly House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler was right when he said on CNN Wednesday, "The phrase constitutional crisis has been overused, but certainly it's a constitutional crisis ..." This is not the first time that we have heard such warnings, but now this crisis is very real.
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The word was quite clearly overused in Django Unchained—don't give me the "realism" canard; Tarantino is anything but a cinematic realist—but it at least assumed a multivalency of meanings and textures when exchanged between Django and other black characters, like his Uncle Tom arch-nemesis Steven (Jackson).
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The term "white fragility" is overused in politics right now, but it is relevant here: The unwillingness to state the obvious — a critical proportion of Republican primary voters enthusiastically supported the candidate who promised to turn back the demographic clock — might be politically wise, but it's analytically disastrous.
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At some point in the last few years, Sevigny shed her erstwhile It Girl status and entered the pantheon of artists who manage a kind of ageless, enduring cool, in both the unflappable and the groovy senses of that overused word: Laurie Anderson, Kim Gordon, Jim Jarmusch, Patti Smith.
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Anyone who knows my work knows I think Yards Per Carry is an overused and fairly terrible stat, so when you hear people saying how Lacy was averaging more than 5.0 yards per carry as some sort of proof that he was having a good year, cover your ears.
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That phrasing lost its weight and credibility when it was overused by the Bush administration, although the Obama administration tried to persuade the world that the policy was for real as it sought to borrow $2 trillion to revive the U.S. economy after its worst crisis in decades.
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In episode 3 of our Strong Opinions Loosely Held podcast, R29's Elisa Kreisinger talks with writers Sally Herships and Amanda Marcotte about why policing our physical voices is just another way to shut women up — and where the overused qualifiers and upspeak even came from the in the first place.
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It was a journalistic call to action, saying that this is going to require a very diligent new kind of journalistic inquiry — and this is not my expression and I know it's overused already, but I think "scrutinize, don't normalize" still works pretty well and you can dance to it.
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To borrow an overused but still useful word, Kennedy was the modern court's most "neoliberal" justice, embracing corporate freedom and sexual freedom as a kind of unity, attacking restraints on campaign spending and mandates to buy health insurance in the same spirit as restrictions on pornography or flag-burning or abortion.
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Lt. Gene Ryan, president of the Fraternal Order of Police in Baltimore, said he recognized the value of the agreement — which, among other things, would require the city to spend more on needed equipment like laptop computers in police cruisers — but agreed with the attorney general that consent decrees were overused.
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To borrow the evening's most overused phrase, let's be clear: Previous questions covered areas including the Supreme Court and women's reproductive rights, Turkey, the opioid crisis, breaking up tech monopolies, and whether billionaire and this debate's "Who?" guy Tom Steyer feels Personally Attacked by Bernie Sanders' rhetoric about the 1%.
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Crucially, the playwrights — who are also the performers, Jennifer Kidwell and Scott Sheppard — recognize that they are delving into the typical, overused Hollywood trope of the white man rescuing the black woman (see, among many other examples, Billy Bob Thornton and Halle Berry in Monster's Ball), so they overturn it.
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I mean as in ... I hate the word "empowering" because I just think it's so overused, but it seems to apply here, but empowering younger women to know that they really don't need to be fitting into somebody else's idea of how they should behave or who they should be.
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Our conventional force—while admittedly overstretched and overused on nation building, counterinsurgency, and small wars in the years since 9/85033—is substantially stronger than even the million-man army Kim commands, and he likewise would never risk conducting ground, air, or sea operations that would result in clashes with the U.S. military.
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LIMINALITY "Liminal" is a joke-word now, and yeah, it's overused, and yeah, it's about as strung-out as "dialectic" for the academia-lite that so much online language is leaning on, but it's where we live, not just "in between" or "both" but always on the edge (and still taking up too much space).
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Normally, credentials to log into routers are printed on the routers themselves, and if they aren't, most devices have a reset button that allows whoever presses it with a paperclip to gain access to it—Galloway calls this the Average Paperclip Threat, a play on the overused industry term APT or (Advanced Persistent Threat).
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The term that most other people tend to apply to his efforts, both as artist and curator is "psychedelic," a term that is at once overused and under-descriptive, but nevertheless feels fitting for his work—not because it's groovy, or even because you necessarily need to consume mind-altering substances to understand it.
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There are plenty of problems with Madoff — I haven't mentioned the overused musical score, which burbles along endlessly beneath almost every scene — but at the very least, it's worth tuning in to the miniseries for five or 10 minutes to watch a great actor show off what made him so great in the first place.
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"The word 'visionary' is overused, but I think in the case of Charles Kao, it's entirely appropriate because he really did see a world that was connected, by light, using the medium of optical fiber," said John Dudley, a researcher in fiber optics based in France and a former president of the European Physical Society.
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Buster Douglas is overused as a parallel but St. Preux has been put in a fortuitous spot, at the best possible time he could meet Jones, and he's got the power and athletic ability to pull an upset if Jones assumes he is the better man and doesn't actually do the things that make him the better fighter.
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The use of solitary confinement in prisons and jails mirrors our national experience with mass incarceration in several important and unfortunate ways: the practice is overused, individuals in these settings frequently have unduly long lengths of stay, and it is often used as a default response to all manner of behavior including nonviolent, low-level rule violations.
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This term also gets overused, and has taken on different meanings, but it means that an Internet service provider (ISP) has to treat all traffic moving across its network the same – that it can't arbitrarily decide, on its own, to block, to throttle, or to charge more for prioritizing the content that you want to see.
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The mystery of the week here elevates itself out of the season three blahs by turning to some emotional wells that were established back when the show was stronger and that haven't yet been overused: Veronica's love for Lilly, her fraught alliance with PCH motorcycle gang leader Weevil, and the ghostly triangle between all three of them.
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That is where I think a lot of the exhaustion comes in is there is ... I think the word gas-lighting has been rather overused, but I do think there is a degree to which you spend so much time trying to make sure that the ground beneath you is actually solid that that is exhausting.
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Originally published as a series of articles for the New Yorker and later, in 1963, as a book, Eichmann in Jerusalem coins the overused and oft-misunderstood phrase "the banality of evil," an idea that sparked a tremendous backlash against Arendt, with many accusing her of using the concept to humanize and to some degree exonerate Eichmann and others like him.
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" Dr. Ilana Sherer, a pediatrician and founder of the Child and Adolescent Gender Center at the University of California, San Francisco, Benioff Children's Hospital, emailed that "binders can be physically very uncomfortable and can cause problems especially if overused or ill-fitting, so it's important that every youth weigh the risks and benefits for themselves and have access to quality, well-fitting binders.
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The well-worn "sounds like [random band] on acid!" trope is way, way overused, so I won't go there, but I'm also going to go out on a limb here and assume that the fine Finns behind Tusmörke weren't completely sober when they recorded this—or if they were, they were tapped into some kind of unseen realm that we mere mortals can only imagine.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE on Tuesday dismissed allegations that he is a racist, telling CSPAN in an interview that the word is "overused" even as he continues to deploy it against his critics.
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Whichever way the causality runs, with the mayor echoing the cop or the cop echoing the mayor, there is an unmistakable resonance between Tsachas's testimony and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg's 2015 defense of violent racist policing: Bloomberg has been desperately trying to distance himself from these comments and from stop-and-frisk in general—in a statement released earlier this month he called it "overused" while passively depicting it as a policy he inherited—but what he said in 2015, is, at its core, the same as what Tsachas's admitted in his deposition to telling officers in his command when he "discussed crime statistics" with them: Young Black and brown men commit crime; target them with enforcement.
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