But everything else must be done in shorthand, and shorthand is the enemy of compelling drama.
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" I like saying "Tribe" — shorthand for "Cleveland Indians.
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"Sin" = sine and "cos" = cosine in trig shorthand.
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It is Christ in shorthand... View the discussion thread.
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" Sommer would quiz Blum — shorthand for "point of infiltration.
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We really do need a shorthand for this repetitive process.
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But that glib shorthand does this probing set a disservice.
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It's shorthand for our range of control over our fates.
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Star Wars has a history of using representation as shorthand.
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Evil, in short, becomes shorthand for the unleashing of death.
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References and shorthand explanations plaster New Dawn like bad wallpaper.
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These days, ideology is perceived as shorthand for personality types.
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The shorthand for the race has become Beto versus Cruz.
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That specific measure is often used as a lazy shorthand.
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What happened next is most often told in shorthand: Prop.
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Being able to be with someone who gets your shorthand.
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"Lo spread" had become shorthand for everything that was wrong.
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F.Y.I. Q. When did "Broadway" become shorthand for professional theater?
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They finished each other's sentences and shared their own shorthand.
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"I have a shorthand kind of career," she tells us.
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Does the term truly exist or is it journalist shorthand?
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Shorthand summary: Can we do better than bacteria smeared on agar?
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Joe Lieberman, I think, is the shorthand term for that person.
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A Brexit is shorthand for "British exit" from the European Union.
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It becomes this weird shorthand for everything that's wrong with modernity.
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Younger generations are enamored with acronyms, shorthand, and self-destructing content.
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He describes the term God as "a shorthand for the mystery".
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Given that, we reflexively created a shorthand for Irvin: Quiet. Uncontroversial.
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This language is far more expressive and expansive than traditional shorthand.
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A person's nationality cannot become shorthand for his or her worth.
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Today, it is commonly a shorthand for an act of deception.
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Cross-sell is shorthand for deep-- you know, long term relationships.
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Ankara has dubbed Gulen's network "FETO", shorthand for "Gulenist Terror Organisation".
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In the early 2010s, violence could become a shorthand for seriousness.
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Shorthand for a series of suspicious demands — Who are you really?
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Since then, Milli Vanilli has become pop culture shorthand for fraud.
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What began as trollish shorthand for political polarization has gone mainstream.
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She named it the Keyz Organization (her shorthand for "caring eyes").
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What he did not include was a shorthand for those events.
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Lidar — pronounced LIE-dar — is shorthand for light detection and ranging.
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It's a catchy shorthand that signals youth and unity and identity.
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It's tough to sum up Bettye Lavette in typical genre shorthand.
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The founders invented the name Cinker as shorthand for Cinema Maker.
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LONDON — The Irish backstop: convenient shorthand for a devilishly complex subject.
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Parties are shorthand for the principles we hold to be true.
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So there was a shorthand there and we had stories to tell.
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Economic populism is typically used as shorthand for the "real" progressive agenda.
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They are the shorthand of a hyper-connected group thinking in unison.
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In those cases, a person's gender became a shorthand for their competence.
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We can use shorthand terms and they&aposre helpful, originalism and textualism.
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The shorthand for those events are changes to the American world order.
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On the whole, that is a fairly reasonable bit of intellectual shorthand.
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People now have a shorthand way to contextualize you — you're less 'weird.
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I [heart] U F.," Hill's shorthand for "Tim, I love you, Faith.
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Those memes are shorthand for fans rather than a language unto itself.
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It's not shorthand for anything, and you would probably drink one now.
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Portraying it as such is lazy shorthand for "wild and free" thinking.
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Don't bother memorizing the old-school radio shorthand known as 10 codes.
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The shorthand for all this — ambition — is a celebrated trait in men.
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Whereas I expect you can do typing and shorthand, you clever girl.
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"Traffic problems," she said, was a shorthand she took from Mr. Wildstein.
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But in shorthand, Republicans hold a 51-49 majority in the Senate.
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The findings have been boiled down to the popular Twitter shorthand #ExxonKnew.
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B.J., CP3, K.D.), corporate shorthand (Melo) or nothing at all (Stephen Curry).
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The presidential candidates' tax plans are a good shorthand illustration of this.
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Most were labeled with some shorthand, obscure title, or nothing at all.
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The new urban settings provide convenient and apt shorthand for those themes.
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Speaking of Amazon: The company has become shorthand for "disruption" across industries.
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It's a messed-up world, she reminds us in her referential shorthand.
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"Paint by numbers" became shorthand for unthinking, mechanical, "just following orders" behavior.
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I find his statement a shameful shorthand for the absence of empathy.
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Traders often use the shorthand CNY and RMB interchangeably for the yuan.
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The Void, shorthand for Vision of Infinite Dimensions, now has 75 employees.
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Campaigns' merch operates as a useful shorthand for a politician's identity. Rep.
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ETS Red and ETS White became our shorthand for inferior wines everywhere.
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When Americans talk about technology, they often use "innovation" as a shorthand.
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The free-enterprise system was a shorthand for freedom, democracy and patriotism.
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To some extent, this represents a benign shorthand used by many critics.
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They became a pop culture shorthand for stories of inequality and scarcity.
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"Conventional" winemaking — shorthand for non-natural wine — is defined by technical intervention.
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It was also expressed with a trashcan and a fire emoji, in shorthand.
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In American politics, New York values has now become a shorthand for progressivity.
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Or could she mean dilly as shorthand for the phrase daughter-in-law?
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"Pivot to video" is now used with snarkful glee as shorthand for failure.
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Especially if you used to be a policy debater or ever learned shorthand.
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Like many colorblind people, I'm what's called "red-green colorblind" as a shorthand.
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For that game and that film, the sounds of death are not shorthand.
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And yet, the eggplant emoji is well-known shorthand for something more NSFW.
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Pyle and Hurt developed a shorthand based on their love of science fiction.
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It's through this male-centered hero narrative that Medusa became shorthand for monstrosity.
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This shorthand, later called the "sun-sign horoscope," brought astrology to the masses.
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But ethereum is often used as shorthand for the digital currency as well.
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The opening six notes are a sonic shorthand for gaming as a whole.
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It is an extra, a remnant, a physical shorthand for memory: a souvenir.
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In shorthand, it's the "security relationship" against human rights; money against due process.
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Kids need to know that that's like, TV and movie shorthand for sex.
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I asked if I had been "P"-ed—the Chinese shorthand for Photoshopping.
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" In other words, despite media shorthand, neither party is ever "completely in charge.
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LMK," Trump Jr. tweeted, using the shorthand Internet term for "let me know.
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"The Bloomberg Way" is shorthand for the culture of all things Mike Bloomberg.
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Public health experts often talk about teen pregnancy as a shorthand for poverty.
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McCrae's poems often read like transcripts, their style a flustered but necessary shorthand.
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"Fake news" as shorthand will almost surely be returned upon the media tenfold.
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But fans have taken to calling the child Baby Yoda anyways as shorthand.
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Whenever I think about our shorthand now, I think about way before college.
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Balenciaga is so associated with Paris, it's almost a shorthand for Paris fashion.
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Many of these fractions resolve into inconvenient decimal series, necessitating shorthand or estimations.
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I suppose there's more of a shorthand in the way we communicate now.
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Emojis can be useful shorthand for tone and meaning in a virtual conversation.
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At this time last year, "Woods — back" was shorthand for a different narrative.
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He eschews painterly shorthand of any kind, preferring the particular to the general.
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"It was funny, and wise, a lyrical shorthand," Ms. Kagan said by email.
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The high-pressure business of feeding crowds has created its own verbal shorthand.
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You can keep track of tasks, as well as your schedule, using shorthand.
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The shorthand is that he says he's six foot three and 239 pounds.
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Ukraine can be shorthand for a Ukraine dominated by its more nationalistic, more
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Angels achieved certain details on the dress with a kind of design shorthand.
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But "speaking Spanish" is often lazy shorthand, a substitute for real Latino outreach.
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Each country in the World Showcase at Epcot gets its own musical shorthand.
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They're two movie stars who have become pop culture's shorthand for true love.
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Here are three reasons you need comedy in the workplace: People always say "our business has a shorthand," says Volk-Weiss, but the CEO explains that one of the easiest ways to develop a shorthand is to bond people through comedy.
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It's shorthand for Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony -- the four major American entertainment awards.
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It served as a wonderful shorthand for the inefficiency of public resources, for instance.
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So we just kind of have that shorthand, a shared language, which is helpful.
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In Silicon Valley's telling, however, "disruption" became shorthand for something closer to techno-darwinism.
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As the fiasco unfolded, the name "tezos" became crypto-world shorthand for ICO avarice.
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Sometimes you need shorthand to help you remember what matters in the long run.
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They're important shorthand, symbolizing at a glance how people felt about a certain item.
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"100% is shorthand for '100% white' among white supremacists," according to the ADL's website.
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But money, here, is really shorthand for a range of ways to exert influence.
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Brutalist architecture has become a kind of visual shorthand for Cold War-era socialism.
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But count me a fan of "Let Go of the World" (My proposed shorthand).
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Wedren: I think the shorthand goes back to the contours of a shared sensibility.
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She avoids the shorthand of cheap-shot snarkiness and presents her subjects with affection.
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The first-person spective was useful shorthand for making a world happen around you.
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Sunset Boulevard has become shorthand for what Los Angeles represents in the collective imagination.
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For those who aren't familiar with the term, it's basically shorthand for complicated highlighter.
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He's mostly been a stock player, walking shorthand for the game's frustrations and difficulties.
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Only occasionally does the script resort to the telegraphic shorthand of cute, defining quirks.
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With it came the handy shorthand "web" to refer to the internet in general.
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"Increasingly, algorithms are used as shorthand for passing the buck," said Mr. Larson, 36.
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Chappaquiddick has become shorthand for the death of political campaign specialist Mary Jo Kopechne.
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Amazon Prime is now shorthand for free and fast delivery, including next-day service.
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"It's like we've all read the same books," he said, explaining the collective shorthand.
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She admitted to speaking in "meme language" and internet shorthand, subbing "v" for very.
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"It's a shorthand way of layering flavors," said Melissa Clark, a Times Food reporter.
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A code name, though, allows for a familiar shorthand that avoids sharing delicate information.
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Some voters argued electability can be shorthand for discrimination against women or minority candidates.
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Delivered in theatrical shorthand, finer shades of ambivalence in Ferrante's prose become baldfaced contradictions.
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"Increasingly, algorithms are used as shorthand for passing the buck," said Mr. Larson, 36.
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Uber won the debate and became shorthand in his administration for an embarrassing defeat.
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To continue speaking a language that was a shorthand my audience and I understood.
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It's become pop culture shorthand, often used to describe a certain type of person.
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Nyack is often used as shorthand to refer to several places with similar names.
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They're a cultural shorthand for the pretty facade and ultimate disappointment of romantic conventions.
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"As I&aposve stated, that text was written late at night, in shorthand," he said.
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The SHE ETF (shorthand for exchange-traded fund) ranked 222 out of 540 comparable funds.
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Other people as a shorthand say 12 black British women, but that's not the truth.
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The term "redpilling" is internet shorthand for the use of memes as a propaganda tool.
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"Sad Mary" is shorthand for the side of Blige's singing persona that expresses downhearted themes.
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If you're not a metalhead, these are good individual passages to improve your genre shorthand.
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Such accusations are so bleakly common they have earned shorthand among South Africans: "state capture".
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"You can think of them in shorthand as iPhone owners," he added during the call.
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That's actually a pretty dense thing to use as shorthand, and it doesn't simplify much.
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Via this work, the exhibition credits Stein with coining "gay" as happy shorthand for homosexual.
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It's shorthand for any "malicious software" which can damage a computer, network, client, or server.
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But on the apps, tacos are still often used as shorthand for a personality trait.
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The media shorthand for this staged event is an outdated stereotype of a Sagebrush Rebellion.
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Bill wrote beautiful heartfelt and thoughtful letters, an anachronism in this age of digital shorthand.
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He has found this to be an effective shorthand description for a brand-new calling.
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To critics, he was a joke, shorthand for hateful stand-up peddling sexism and homophobia.
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He knows how to use symbols and rituals as shorthand to get an idea across.
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After all these years, she has an easy camaraderie with the players, a shared shorthand.
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With "The Lehman Trilogy," he worked to excavate the play's rhythms and its storytelling shorthand.
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And "political correctness," the decade's shorthand for liberal politics, has returned as something more menacing.
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A search for "Brexit," the widely used shorthand for the vote, produced a similar ranking.
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"The code" was their shorthand for how racists sent out feelers to find kindred spirits.
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Now dating apps offer a whole list of shorthand to get the partner you want.
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And unlike e-cigs and electronics, there's no shorthand guide on how it all works.
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He did say it was shy of $1 billion, "unicorn" status in Silicon Valley shorthand.
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In these scenes, Philippe employs a subtle shorthand for conveying the extent of Hitchcock's influence.
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Opponents of the solar project have a shorthand line of attack: Seattle is pushing this.
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The bride's family, the Barlows, are mostly lawyers, a profession used as shorthand for staidness.
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People here talk about "la situación" — the situation — shorthand for the economic struggle many face.
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The jazz funeral in New Orleans is more than shorthand for the city's tourism industry.
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"High-quality construction" is Mr. Ely's shorthand for where he sees growth in home building.
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But that can't be shorthand for oh, by the way, there's no business here. Right.
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Vegas and Washington are familiar with the hashtag #GMGM, shorthand for General Manager George McPhee.
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The term Anthropocene is geological shorthand for a world of carbon-induced climate havoc — i.e.
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In the years since, the word "Beirut" has become shorthand for war zone, bombings, devastation.
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Then of course there was the suitably named Sweet William, which is shorthand for gallantry.
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We share endless bad jokes and we have our own strange shorthand or 'sister speak.
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But in general, op-ed is shorthand for opinion columns, commentaries or other authored features.
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There's a shorthand and a trust thing that's just hard to replicate with other people.
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Indeed, many in the oil and gas industry wish the media would quit using the shorthand.
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And People You May Know, or "PYMK" in the company's internal shorthand, is a black box.
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A fracture within society is often shorthand for human suffering or the existence of burning grievances.
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Eminem's December 25 song "Stan" gave rise to the term that's become shorthand for this phenomenon.
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Crocs are practically shorthand for unflattering clothing that insists comfort will always, always trump aesthetic grace.
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A year and a half ago, "Charlottesville" became shorthand for racist violence in the national press.
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We are accustomed to party labels as very meaningful shorthand for principles, beliefs, and policy stances.
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The first thing is, I think [emoji have] become great shorthand for people who are influencers.
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And, indeed, it looks like a real-world shorthand for the basic idea of a camera.
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It's long become a meme, shared widely on the internet, shorthand for frustration, and bad dialogue.
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The shorthand version isn't as pretty, but It takes half the time and still tastes delicious.
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More generally, though, it is used as shorthand for saying that computers are always getting better.
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As The Next Web pointed out, it's misleading to use Bitcoin as a shorthand for cryptocurrency.
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We have such a shorthand now, I just send Sean pages and hope he likes them.
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It was a Frankenstein's monster of a style and soon became shorthand for mom hair everywhere.
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It's a shorthand that lets us talk about our careers, our sexualities, our taste in bras.
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The key to understanding Trump's motivations here are entirely contained in the ACA's shorthand nickname: Obamacare.
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"Right-wing" is lazy shorthand and totally misses how different Ron Paul and Donald Trump are.
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Inside the ACLU, Shakir said, "more like the NRA" had already become shorthand for getting results.
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Shorthand: Taxpayers, your money is my money, and I will use it as I see fit.
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The labels serve to shorthand judicial decisions for people who desire to know the bottom line.
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"We can communicate in a kind of shorthand that no one else understands," Mr. Earle said.
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Potato chips are an all-American villain, shorthand for everything that's wrong with the national diet.
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The Gun serves as a simplistic shorthand for the complexities of history and evolving international relations.
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Which is shorthand for saying they'll be able to play with any team in the country.
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But the fact that they're a sort of shorthand also makes them nearly impossible to explain.
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A: The end of the world is universal shorthand for whatever we don't want to happen.
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Most of us were unfamiliar with HIAS, the shorthand for a Jewish group that resettles refugees.
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I think it's shorthand for nostalgia, for the way America ought to be, in some views.
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P.A. epidemiologist, wrote in a 2015 email to a colleague — using "epi" as shorthand for epidemiology.
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" There's a shorthand at the Brooklyn HQ for the gold standard in a Clinton speech: "Doha.
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More than anything, "single payer" has become shorthand for the notion that everyone deserves health care.
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The shorthand is that generals should have "stood up to Johnson" or even stopped him somehow.
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The shorthand comes right back, but then, always, something inside me will cut that connection off.
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Sex and pornography often serve as shorthand for characters' loneliness and their search for self-worth.
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Though it is often invoked as a shorthand for stuffiness, a pearl necklace needn't look prim.
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By serving as a sort of shorthand, the names could help New Yorkers with their selection.
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Beauty — so far as a reproductive mate was concerned — was merely a shorthand for those traits.
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Beto is a popular shorthand for Robert in the Hispanic community, but O'Rourke is not Hispanic.
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For national politicians, President Trump in particular, "Chicago" is shorthand for broken parts of this country.
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To some conservatives, though, the phrase has become shorthand for deep anxieties about a changing country.
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"Brexit," the shorthand term for a British exit from the European Union, is finally on the table.
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"Star Trek fans had been used as shorthand for 'stupid smelly loser' for a generation," she said.
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Social media users began using #Fontgate as shorthand for all things related to the Sharif family's corruption.
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"Foiling" is actually tech lord shorthand for hydrofoiling, a leisure sport that blends kiteboarding and fluid dynamics.
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In movies, tv and life, rubbing one's temples is a shorthand to indicate that you're stressed out.
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Everyone calls it Davos, but the Swiss mountain village has become shorthand for the World Economic Forum.
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The more technical term is "non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment," often rendered in shorthand as NAIRU.
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For Trump, beating up on wind power is just political shorthand for punching hippies, suggested some experts.
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Reality television, for lazy media critics and beltway pundits alike, is shorthand pejorative for tawdry and cheap.
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"Wall Street went through a similar transformation," he says, its name becoming shorthand for a whole industry.
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The day's task: Moving a component called a Pump Flow Control Subassembly, or PFCS in space shorthand.
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Yep, there's more going on than just providing a shorthand for the moment Julia touches the knife.
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It looks like ICOs, shorthand for initial coin offerings, are about to undergo a lot more scrutiny.
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IN GERMANY, as in France, America and elsewhere, 1968 is as much a shorthand as a reality.
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"Bill wrote beautiful heartfelt and thoughtful letters, an anachronism in this age of digital shorthand," said Cameron.
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Astrological glyphs are a system of shorthand to denote the signs without having to write them out.
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"We believe in addressing the root cause of the problem, not just a shorthand fix," she says.
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For frugal travellers, it's shorthand for giving up some of the few remaining comforts of flying economy.
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You would think Don Jr. would know that SNL is the accepted shorthand for the popular show.
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Iconography (from eikonographía, the imagery or symbolism of a work of art) remains the ultimate visual shorthand.
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His shorthand utilises commercial and cultural signifiers, and then twists them, dispossessing them of their intended connotation.
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Eventually, I started skipping the blue question marks, which ended up being shorthand for an empty promise.
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But also there's a shorthand that I think women who have close friendships with other women have.
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The beats that work — like Rachel's media-optics shorthand — only work because characters realize the game's rigged.
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Tweets authored by the candidate herself generally include "-H" at the end, a shorthand signature of sorts.
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It's shorthand for an older person angry that people they think don't belong are ruining the neighborhood.
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But Republicans aren't buying Lamb's distancing from Pelosi, using her as shorthand for the Democratic congressional agenda.
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Yes, NoDak, as some locals shorthand it, has one of the country's seven at-large House districts.
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There is no shorthand in Murphy's work: everything is painted with a stunning amount of necessary detail.
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And there followed a period when "Made in Italy" became a kind of shorthand for elevated taste.
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People posture, joke, speak in shorthand and use cultural references that are hard for others to interpret.
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But because we don't see the relevant investigations, the doctor is character shorthand that doesn't really work.
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Speaking in shorthand, the men and women checked their eight boats, three tractor-trailers and other equipment.
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And the very name of his more impulsive successor has become a kind of shorthand racial taunt.
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The team is nicknamed "the Tillies," a somewhat mystifying shorthand to new followers befitting a historic team.
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When we reduce each other to shorthand and labels, we create the space for polarization and division.
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Smoke is shorthand for culinary catastrophe, setting off alarms in the kitchen and jitters in nervous cooks.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a movement whose successful protests are now shorthand for their era.
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The idea of heading west has become a kind of shorthand for the search for better things.
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The acronym BBW, internet shorthand for "big, beautiful, women," exists in a liminal space in pop culture.
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" That shorthand is consistent with how Manafort and other employees at his former consulting business referred to the billionaire in other documents obtained by the AP. That shorthand for Deripaska was specifically used in the 2005 proposal that referred to the plan to "greatly benefit the Putin Government.
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I thought it might be reminiscent of shorthand, but most schools of shorthand manipulate vowels in different ways; one, "Abjad," sounded promising, and in researching that family a bit I found out something that I'd never known, namely that Egyptian hieroglyphics are considered to be written only as consonants.
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It was shorthand for what Trump called "oppo research," the information that candidates obtain about their election rivals.
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The watershed work has since entered the popular lexicon, shorthand for the seemingly glamorous destruction of drug addiction.
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It is kind of a mouthful in regular conversation, so a cute shorthand could really come in handy.
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This means religiosity becomes a shorthand for how broken disciples are, and how little they can be trusted.
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"There should be no further releases from Gitmo," Trump tweeted January 3, using the shorthand for the facility.
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The term "point" is just a shorthand way of referring to a concept, a 3D point in space.
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You could describe that lesson as "lol, nothing matters," the great and false online shorthand of our time.
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Ultimately, Steam and similar digital storefronts thrived, while SecuROM became shorthand for everything wrong with anti-piracy efforts.
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My shorthand is: See, Think, Do. For the last couple decades, we've been living in an Instrumented City.
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Jenny and I just have that shorthand with each other, but we also wanted to push each other.
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Well, limbic capitalism is just my shorthand for global industries that basically encourage excessive consumption and even addiction.
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Money, in McGregor's worldview, is the world's great clarifier, a kind of shorthand to gauge success and worth.
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The video is captioned with a baby and crown emoji, the perfect shorthand for her son's regal name.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The animated GIF is the internet's handiest shorthand for expressing complex emotions.
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They have made the term "Second Gilded Age" a convenient shorthand for affluent arrogance and economic inequity today.
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MCC: THE SHORTHAND TO DESCRIBE YOUR PARTY IN THE US IS FREQUENTLY DESCRIBED AS ANTI-SEMITIC, ANTI-MUSLIM.
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"Agree on a single emoji denoting sexy times, a custom shorthand for you and your partner," recommends McCombs.
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For DuVernay's miniseries, there would be no shorthand, no attempt to make the horror somehow familiar or routine.
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They define their own use of "millennials" as "snide shorthand" and "snotty" within the pages of the paper.
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Back before "PDA" was merely shorthand for kissing someone a crowded commuter train, we carried personal digital assistants.
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Rather, "coup" has become shorthand for accusing Ms. Rousseff's political opponents of exploiting the law to subvert democracy.
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Wade, but using the shorthand that has been used by advocates on the issue creates an even split.
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They said their years of collaboration has resulted in a shorthand between them when they tackle new topics.
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Will Lola agree to join Robert at "SoCo," shorthand for Southern Comfort, the annual transgender convention in Atlanta?
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There are a lot of archetypal stories in that book that can serve as shorthand, culturally, for us.
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There's a reason 'get Joe on the phone' is shorthand for 'time to get serious' in my office.
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"Wage theft" is a shorthand term that refers to situations in which someone isn't paid for the work.
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He said the term Original Pilipino Music eventually replaced Manila Sound as a shorthand for Filipino pop music.
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Gail: For most Democrats, "abolish ICE" is just shorthand for getting rid of the Trump anti-immigration agenda.
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Riding a bicycle, however complex, is often used as shorthand for something which, once learned, is never forgotten.
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Such single-minded dressing is generally a strategic choice that creates a shorthand, rendering a person immediately identifiable.
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Instead, these tropes have become an abstract shorthand for "the past" in the personal, rather than temporal, sense.
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The lawyers said Mr. Stone was not charged with "collusion" — the president's shorthand for conspiring with the Russians.
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Star ratings, meant to serve as a shorthand for written reviews, now require significant context to be comprehensible.
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After twenty years of friendship, they speak in coded shorthand, while wordlessly pulling fries off each other's plates.
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Employing an episodic, borderline shapeless structure, it subscribes to the kind of screenwriting shorthand that prompts bad guffaws.
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The one-wheeled vehicle is kind of a shorthand for futuristic technology, something that's just beyond our grasp.
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As Moore studied his shorthand notes, then delivered a monotone précis, Sorrentino tapped ash on the traffic below.
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He takes notes during the day on the different activities and uses shorthand so he can track them.
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After another "namaste," which appears to be his shorthand for "kindly leave," Mr. Van Ness resumed his thoughts.
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Professor Feldman said he had no quarrel with the headlines, which he said used an acceptable colloquial shorthand.
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They shared a shorthand about all things work, church and family, and often would burst into hysterical laughter.
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If Sanders's "divisiveness" is just shorthand for dissent against a violent status quo, how is that a problem?
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To witnesses that testified before the Committee, references to "Burisma" was shorthand for an investigation into the Bidens.
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Ever since, "space Pearl Harbor" has been nightmare shorthand for a sneak attack taking out our key satellites.
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In some communities, unannounced trips to the Turkish city had become a shorthand for travels to the caliphate.
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They became shorthand for a key swath of America, one not driven by ideology so much as practicality.
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Neither Bergdahl's name, nor the term DUSTWUN (shorthand for a missing soldier), appears in any of the documents.
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" Since then, Baby Jane has become a pop-culture inside joke, its title shorthand for "deranged showbiz crone.
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Galbi translates literally as ribs and is commonly used as shorthand for so galbi, grilled beef short ribs.
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It falls in a category of emergent acronymization, along with other internet shorthand, such as LOL and OMFG.
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The shorthand that I've used — which I think is really true — is like Putin made Russia great again.
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DuckDuckGo (123)Nobody with the capacity for self-awareness says they just "duckduckgo'd" something as shorthand for searching online.
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In many examples of games that have a sea, it's easily recognizable shorthand: You can't go past this bit.
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The shorthand "Hillary's emails," though somewhat irresistible, suggests a single controversy that is somehow both monolithic and strangely sprawling.
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The Jones Act is the shorthand name for the Merchant Marine Act of 1920, whose primary author was Sen.
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Check out the secret carriers "Secret carrier" sounds sketchy, but it's shorthand for a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO).
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Written in shorthand and vernacular, this single book-length poem subversively brings nature imagery into an anti-nature poem.
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OW/RT This is a no-brainer: OW is a shorthand for "one way", and RT means "return trip".
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After all, political labels are just shorthand: We use them for convenience, even at the loss of some precision.
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Ms. Platten is at her best when she relies more on shorthand pop gestures and less on subject matter.
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"I would certainly consider that, send him to Gitmo," Trump said, using the familiar shorthand for the detention center.
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APIs are a collection of well-defined interactions, a sort of shorthand to quickly access services, libraries, other functionalities.
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"The secretaries were on duty all through the night, and would write in shorthand whenever inspiration struck," James said.
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Also, perhaps, about the cultural impact and shorthand of the gif and how it has risen (back) to power.
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Shorthand, abbreviations and online slang should be avoided if possible, and used only in the most informal of conversations.
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That is the kind of video game crafting shorthand that sounds increasingly ridiculous as you actually type it out.
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" Highlighting age in a headline is just shorthand for "Can you believe how good she looks for her age?
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Are you saying it's bad marketing for brands like Xerox and Kleenex to become shorthand for the entire category?
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When Kennedy had said "a man on the moon" it was not shorthand for a human of either gender.
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It's true that, in the past, fart apps have become a bit of a shorthand for useless mobile software.
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Our favorite: One Twitter user assumed the shorthand was Manny Gutierrez's last name (which would be kind of dope).
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We can't use Latin American as a shorthand to encompass an incredible diversity of influences, languages, attitudes, and cultures.
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Saying Democrats need a Breitbart or a Koch network is an elevator pitch to donors—it's venture capitalist shorthand.
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The "Wukan model" became Chinese reformists' shorthand for what they hoped would be a new way of defusing unrest.
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Clinton's spotlighting her debate practice was a shorthand defense of the experience that her opponents have cast as insiderism.
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In the popular imagination, "hedge funder" has become shorthand for a special breed of super-rich, super-intelligent scoundrel.
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But it's at a different pace after Tempe, which has become something of a shorthand for the fatal event.
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Some observers have taken to saying "camera is the new keyboard" as a kind of shorthand for what's happening.
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So that shorthand really served us in addition to knowing that I don't need to prove myself to David.
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Using the odd black face as shorthand to signal diversity, without enacting real transformation internally, can't cut it anymore.
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The more indistinct my queerness became, the more I relied on my partners as shorthand to tell that story.
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In practical terms, retro is basically shorthand for the culture of your childhood and anything that came before it.
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She grows more jacks (field shorthand for the basic big orange Halloween model) than anyone else in the country.
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Born Robert Francis O'Rourke, Beto got his nickname as an infant—it's the local shorthand for Roberto, Alberto, Humberto.
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"We've come up with a lot of explanations that are shorthand for us, but not for them," Taibbi said.
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At their most obvious level, bricks serve as shorthand for the urban landscape: a symbol of obstacle and entrapment.
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Talking about "the 1 Percent" was shorthand for acknowledging this reality, and tying that reality to readily available data.
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The splashy project landed him on talk shows and magazine covers as the photogenic shorthand for Reagan-age materialism.
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Mr. Rodger had expressed his disgust at women online and urged "incels" — shorthand for involuntary celibates — to fight back.
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My dad would dictate the bulletin to my mom, who wrote it in shorthand and then typed it up.
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The easygoing cartoon frog was a shorthand for relatable satisfaction or sadness, particularly on the chaotic message board 4chan.
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We had a shorthand by then, and he would say, `No, no, no,' when I wasn't hitting the truth.
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He used the shorthand "HH," presumably to refer to his boss, the foreign minister, His Highness Abdullah bin Zayed.
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There came a point in Morrison's life when her very portrait became a kind of shorthand for literary gravitas.
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California is not the only state whose political complexity is often overlooked in the shorthand of a polarized era.
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On Tuesday, a skeptical Supreme Court considered whether the incident — "Bridgegate," in the tabloid shorthand — was also a crime.
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These days, it's a term of abuse — a shorthand for puritanical political correctness, a pejorative wielded against liberal elitism.
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That's my shorthand for the 302(b) allocations, which set the cap for each of the 12 spending measures.
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Generational stereotyping is a particular favorite when it comes to value-judgment-based shorthand: The Greatest Generation are patriots.
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During their formative years, Brownsville was the kind of place politicians used as shorthand for crime-ridden urban decay.
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Gantz has called for a "liberal" administration, political shorthand for one that does not include Netanyahu's ultra-Orthodox partners.
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The "S" in "S-Town" is shorthand for a four-letter word — Mr. McLemore's preferred nickname for his hometown.
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The name of the Florida city has become shorthand for a tragedy that many hoped would end school shootings.
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There came a point in Morrison's life when her very portrait became a kind of shorthand for literary gravitas.
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When World War II broke out, Rosamunde left school, learned shorthand and went to work for the Foreign Office.
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But whoever designed it knew the concision was possible because we'd know the shorthand of an eternal racial dynamic.
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It's shorthand for a bevy of renter-friendly reforms that a large coalition of tenant groups is lobbying for.
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The term "funk artist," first entered the American lexicon as shorthand for anyone with work in Selz's 1967 show.
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Celebrity: Bridge the gaps with the emerging direct-to-fan celebrity nation-states (or "celebnations," if you like shorthand).
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The event description and the page's discussion posts are plastered with shitposting — shorthand for the sharing of especially lowbrow memes.
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So "the IPOs" has become a shorthand for how a region riven by inequality is preparing to stomach even more.
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By now, "AOC" is shorthand that signifies both Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez herself, and the changing Washington, D.C. that she represents.
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Filmmakers have been using skin conditions, scars, and hair loss as a shorthand for "evildoer" since the silent film era.
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But what often goes unsaid is that texting is more subtle, sophisticated, and important than its crude shorthand lets on.
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Maternal grief has become a shorthand for filling out a female character and giving her something personal to reckon with.
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Brodsky hints throughout the film that Slenderman, in his newfound IRL fame, has become a completely different kind of shorthand.
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And "even though I was a terrible typist and couldn't read my own shorthand, somebody actually hired me" she says.
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There are also shorthand references in the texts to "Z" (Zelensky) and "S" (Secretary of State Mike Pompeo), among others.
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But sometimes the divergence becomes too much in the areas where the brushstrokes turn into shorthand for the leafy branches.
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It wasn't in any known shorthand or variation of medieval Latin or English or French or any other known language.
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"It's just one of those things that's a shorthand for describing who I am," the star says in the interview.
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Worldcon — shorthand for The World Science Fiction Convention — has been no stranger to controversy over its 76 years of existence.
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E3, the shorthand name for the annual Electronics Entertainment Expo, is the biggest video game industry convention in the world.
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" It can also be shorthand for "I use feelings about my last ex to express feelings about my current relationship.
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In Mormon circles, in fact, "stone cut without hands" has become shorthand for the church and the gospel it preaches.
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So let's avoid those who are dumb and dogmatic, without using politics or faith as a shorthand for mental acuity.
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Its title alone has become shorthand for an earworm propelled through social media to become 22000st-century digital folk culture.
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However, opponents define "free" as shorthand for individual freedom, since most people pay for Internet access most of the time.
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The shorthand may be helpful to those readers or viewers seeking to absorb the implications of a Supreme Court decision.
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The intense debate over the referendum, widely known by its shorthand, "Brexit," has pitted neighbors and relatives against one another.
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They've become political shorthand for white working-class voters, even as they're outnumbered by solar workers nearly four to one.
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Perhaps our championing of alphabetic literacy is in part due to our belief that it is shorthand for civilization itself.
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The reason for this tribute is pretty obvious: Black Panther Party imagery has become shorthand for black power and pride.
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And that bond is so tight that movies, TV, and other media still constantly lean on flannel as lesbian shorthand.
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Often in police shootings, the carrying of a gun by the victim has become shorthand for whether it was justified.
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"The sooner the GOP's dangerous anti-healthcare lawsuit is ended, the better," Pelosi said, using shorthand for the Republican Party.
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The potential offense that each is investigating might go by the same shorthand — "collusion" — but it is not the same.
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Written in cook's shorthand, it seemed simple enough — just a few ingredients stirred together in no particular order, then baked.
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The article shocked a nation, and Cleveland's burning river became a national punch line and shorthand for Rust Belt despair.
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B.J.P. supporters used false information and criticism of Rohingya refugees as shorthand for broader anti-Muslim sentiments, Ms. Soundararajan said.
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Like many émigrés from the former Soviet Union, they use "Russia" as shorthand for the complicated place they come from.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In film, there is a shorthand for the future, the typeface Eurostile Bold Extended.
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Scientists often come up with acronyms that serve as nicknames for studies and are shorthand for long, complicated scientific titles.
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To the North Koreans, Mr. Bolton knew, the Libya example was shorthand for making a bad decision to unilaterally disarm.
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Had her talents been in STEM — shorthand for science, technology, engineering and math — she would have felt differently, she said.
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The previous system, and the one in the standard manual, goes by a different shorthand, E.F.S., for elevator feel shift.
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We talk in shorthand about "Trump voters" or "social justice warriors," but when you actually meet people they defy categories.
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Many carried signs with his initials — J.O.H — and the prosecutor's shorthand for the president — CC-4, meaning a co-conspirator.
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Before the series even debuts on Wednesday, April 26, references to "The Handmaid's Tale" — shorthand for repressive patriarchy — seem ubiquitous.
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Remove the autobiography and the book seems drained, wan, the characters ghosts, the love between them rarely more than shorthand.
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Today, the phrase is often shorthand for opposition to "big government," a term that carries racial implications of its own.
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To understand why that shorthand has lately proved so useful, it helps to remember what it's like to experience anxiety.
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Gantz, however, has called for a "liberal" administration, political shorthand for one that does not include Netanyahu's ultra-Orthodox partners.
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Health data on its own — billing, diagnostic and treatment information, typically recorded in arcane, shorthand codes — is not very useful.
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Some of these expressions become the standard shorthand in Washington, sometimes used by both proponents and opponents of a proposal.
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" Ms. Pelosi said she and Mr. Schumer know each other so well that "we speak in shorthand to each other.
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P/E is shorthand for the price-earnings ratio, a metric used by investors to gauge the relative expensiveness of securities.
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"Uber for X" has become a kind of shorthand for convenience—a technological solution for any of life's frustrating, dull tasks.
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"Keto" is shorthand for the "ketogenic diet," which is the buzzy diet that pretty much everyone is curious about right now.
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Board of Education decision, "busing" emerged as the descriptive shorthand used to effectively thwart the racial integration of American public schools.
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The whole tone of the song is very 1989 by way of diva vocals; or, put in shorthand, ACS: Versace-friendly.
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Like a video game is useful as shorthand for a critic's notebook, from which it can be unpacked onto the page.
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We have this idea, and a big part of the idea was, to shorthand it, was this Wikipedia for the news.
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Nothing, though, is more perfect than this Texas teen's recreation of the moment that's become internet shorthand to show someone encouragement.
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This was the height of the national division over the widespread criminal conspiracy led by the President [Richard Nixon], shorthand Watergate.
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It's totally normal to use this kind of shorthand when talking about food; it's endemic to the culture we live in.
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Collins was one of 24 of the world's top surfers invited to Mavericks, shorthand for both an event and a place.
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There are various shorthand measures for this, but true "value" investors put the greatest store by the price-to-book ratio.
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" This may seem like a small thing, but think about how unnatural a conversation is when you cannot use human "shorthand.
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This is Mr Buffett's shorthand for a company with a lasting competitive edge—the philosopher's stone of business strategists and stockpickers.
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If you know Lords of Waterdeep, the digital version plays like an (admittedly no-frills) shorthand version of the board game.
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It's a useful shorthand reference to the power you can expect, with i7 CPUs the best of the bunch from Intel.
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Life among the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite (or WASPs, in sociological shorthand) was good for a young John Ellis Bush.
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And yet it is thrown around as easy shorthand, both to explain what something is and to defend why it's done.
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The data is incomplete because it does not include nicknames, like AOC, or other shorthand references to the names of individuals.
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Reclaiming the word 'diva' might prove tricky, given that so many take it as shorthand for a bratty form of bitchiness.
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Few games lend the issue even this much thought; most are content with using drugs as shorthand for simple power-ups.
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The agency will offer a menu of services articulated through the shorthand ABCDE – Audience, Brand Consultancy, Content, Data and Events & Experiences.
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"Civilian oversight is provided by the civilian service secretaries and the civilian SECDef," he said, using the shorthand for defense secretary.
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RNC-member delegates: Shorthand for Republican National Committee members who automatically get to serve as delegates to the Republican National Convention.
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Bannon allies have long referred to Gary Cohn as "Globalist Gary" or in text chains they use the emoji shorthand: 🌎.
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" Franken called that "shorthand for gutting any environmental or consumer protection measure that gets in the way of corporate profit margins.
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The study states that having a shorthand for the ability to decide on issues can make meeting-laden businesses more productive.
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For as long as indices have acted as shorthand for the markets they seek to capture, index-makers have received attention.
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More important, in those shows, tap — customarily used as Broadway shorthand for high spirits and razzmatazz — also expressed anger and pain.
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It sparked a trade war in the early days of the Great Depression, and has become shorthand for self-destructive protectionism.
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Mr. Kent said in his interview that "Clinton" was "shorthand" for an investigation into what happened in the 2016 presidential election.
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The shorthand for the network was once the "Koch brothers," a reference to Charles and David Koch, its patrons and figureheads.
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Miguel's relatives refer to him as "mi'jo," shorthand for mi hijo, my son, a common form of endearment in Hispanic families.
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During the Occupy Wall Street protests and the discussions of income inequality that followed, "the 1 percent" became shorthand for wealth.
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These buzzwords get repeated so often they become a shorthand for concepts that most people do not articulate, let alone understand.
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"Belgrade apartment" was for a time a kind of international shorthand for a spacious, well-appointed flat in a tower block.
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"Gaslighting" has become shorthand to describe the purposeful psychological isolation of people by making them doubt what they see and remember.
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This has been a common refrain for all five years of Klinsmann's tenure, and is also shorthand for saying they're bad.
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He leaned over his shoulder and said "Beast?" while opening the refrigerator; this was shorthand for beer in the Heldt house.
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"Nail-biter" is shorthand for an election too close to call or the overtime clock running down on a tie game.
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But long strings of words, such as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, set off a desire for a convenient shorthand.
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Her own painting "Shame" looks like an homage to Soutine — a lively pictorial symbolism — made with an utterly contemporary painterly shorthand.
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We did not want Vioxx to become a verbal shorthand, like an Enron or something of that nature, for corporate wrongdoing.
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Just as often, it fails when it is little more than a clumsy shorthand for socially concerned art, unobjectionable and unimpressive.
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All of a sudden the importance of brand as shorthand ... Well, David Bowie's dead so you don't want to do that.
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Of course, "the surface of the Earth" is shorthand since this can mean wildly different things depending on where you're standing.
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People sometimes shorthand the act of dogged discovery as "shoe leather" journalism — pounding pavements rather than sitting at the desk Googling.
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Instead she learned shorthand and typing and went to work as a secretary for the Chamber of Commerce in Oklahoma City.
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"Ferguson" became shorthand for the national push for racial justice, even while parts of Ferguson, the city, were left in rubble.
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A man in the audience accused Anderson of being 'a Pollyanna'—shorthand for a woman who is excessively optimistic or naïve.
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The trouble begins with language: Elite pundits regularly misuse "working class" as shorthand for right-wing white guys wearing tool belts.
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Friends for this long, they have a shared shorthand about certain things: stories they finish and tells to their true feelings.
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Russia's attitude toward its neighbors was summed up in Lenin's expression, kto-kogo, who-whom, shorthand for who will dominate whom.
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Even if it wasn't used by name or with the exact sequence, the code became shorthand for all other cheat codes.
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The "I" becomes an EYE, and the smell is not a good one — this is shorthand for GIVE THE STINK EYE.
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"This is the oldest trick in the GOP playbook," said Daniel Wessel, a DNC spokesman, using shorthand for the Republican Party.
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But people will know … What Wallace is doing is talking to them in a kind of shorthand, a kind of code.
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When Lucy speaks as her mother, it's with a sort of descriptive physical shorthand, conjuring sharp edges and a nasal twang.
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It's not a rush of progress that's said to be unsettling us; "economic anxiety" is shorthand for a wave of failure.
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"We still use the shorthand 'Scalia' (as a verb) for what has become a weekly last-minute show adjustment," she said.
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The Victoria Advocate reported in 2013 that the person had scrawled "H8," shorthand for "hate," on the outside of the building.
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It is unfortunate for Democrats that the media has latched on to it as a shorthand for the President's alleged actions.
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It's a kind of shorthand, a simple way to convey whether you're aging more quickly or slowly than the average person.
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It is very interesting to me how this shorthand has become such a well-used and understood symbol in our language.
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The sequences opt instead to use visual shorthand for movement, like "speed lines" from comic books that indicate direction of movement.
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For many, his slender bronze figures are a shorthand for the wrought emotion and desolation caused by the horrors of war.
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"Look, a lot of this was escalated because of DaE—DaE's an asshole," he said, using the shorthand of Wheeler's nickname, SuperDaE.
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The phrase has become shorthand for Trump's claim that the investigation is politically motivated and based on no credible evidence of wrongdoing.
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"For the last part, the dessert, we ask them if they want to get lifted," Fung says—her shorthand for getting high.
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"Unattended" is shorthand for an act of grace on the part of the cemetery's staff, its volunteers, and hundreds of other supporters.
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The distortions begin to build up and become a shorthand way of describing the interior world and mental state of the subject.
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What shows or games like Terrace House and Persona 5 give us is shorthand for how it feels to live our lives.
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In other words, to speed up the guessing process, it would learn, over time, to sub in shorthand symbols for complex phrases.
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"Once a plot expands beyond a few people, it's very difficult to maintain op-sec," he said, using shorthand for operational security.
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Throughout Ma, even in its bumpiest and pulpiest passages, these kinds of details come through in observable shorthand, rather than clunky exposition.
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Obamacare has become shorthand for how health care works for the minority of Americans who do not receive insurance through their employers.
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The event, called "OTR" (shorthand for "off the record"), is an annual gathering meant for new media news executives to talk shop.
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A hydroxide ion is a negatively charged combination of a single hydrogen atom and a single oxygen atom (OH- in chemical shorthand).
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His political communications have placed Nazi German symbols, which are shorthand for hatred of Jews (among other groups), front and center before.
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The idea of a "canon" of a shared cultural shorthand has been challenged as outmoded and exclusionary, unfitting for a pluralist society.
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As a phrase, "the Belt and Road" may come to be used in the same, shorthand way as "the West" is today.
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They're rarely more than a shorthand: bully victims, the romantically inept, people who are good at uncool stuff like math or piano.
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The transcripts revealed that officers would use the shorthand NHI -- "No Human Involved" -- for crimes involving black victims and perpetrators, Rice recalled.
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Perhaps owing to its as-told-to nature, the book often feels like a shorthand for a life as expansive as Barlow's.
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Today, "blockchain" is treated as shorthand for the technology that underlies most cryptocurrencies and digital token systems, such as Bitcoin or Ethereum.
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It's hard to remember a time when Microsoft Paint wasn't shorthand for something ham-handedly drawn on a free computer art program.
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Just as you'll hear the abbreviated "-OTUS" words used as shorthand for the president, first lady, and Supreme Court (POTUS, FLOTUS, SCOTUS).
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Paul Fischer: HTML5 is shorthand for HTML, CSS and JavaScript: JavaScript is the logic, and HTML and CSS are the user interface.
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I mean, officially it's the "United States of America," but "America" has become acceptable shorthand, whether or not South America likes it.
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The current black-red coalition is also called "GroKo", shorthand for grosse koalition (grand coalition) as it involves the two largest parties.
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The term actually originated from France, and is a shorthand for respondez s'il vous plait — which translates to: respond if you please.
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DACA is shorthand for the program started by President Barack Obama to give temporary legal status to certain children of undocumented immigrants.
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Whether you cheer or decry the rise of so-called "identity politics," you can't deny the rising desire for simple, shorthand definitions.
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" Eventually, riots ensue among "Kids that can't afford the cool brand/Whose anger is a shorthand/For you'll never get a wristband.
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"The system is rigged" has served, beyond politics, as blunt and useful shorthand for systemic injustice and the limits of American meritocracy.
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The Protestant aesthetic is defined, in part, by the fact that Protestantism developed among people who no longer needed that visual shorthand.
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Design folks lost their minds over the look, and it became shorthand for an aesthetic and an ethos: English bohemia, but cleaner.
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National security thinkers commonly use the acronym "DIME" as shorthand for the key elements of U.S. power — diplomatic, informational, military and economic.
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He also said his assailants yelled "MAGA", shorthand for Trump's Make America Great Again slogan, and other pro-Trump language at him.
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The shorthand for this was saying that he was playing three-dimensional chess while everyone else was playing a more traditional game.
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Villagers repeatedly use the shorthand of "the crisis" to describe contemporary financial conditions and the crippling effects they have on village life.
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Sex addiction, in other words, has become shorthand for "bad sexual behavior," rather than describing a true addiction to one unique behavior.
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Lord, it is "Deadwood"; not just a nostalgic exercise but a fair shorthand of what might have transpired in a fourth season.
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Faces are simplified by a cartoonish emotional shorthand—Hahn's women are happy or sad, the top and bottom of the emoji register.
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Those map colors quickly became easy shorthand for Republicans and Democrats, and the terms "red state" and "blue state" truly took hold.
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And it would provide Altria a toehold on an e-cigarette maker whose name has become shorthand among younger customers for vaping.
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First, collusion has no legal definition, though it has become a term of art as a shorthand reference to the Russia investigation.
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Fifty years later, Mr. Anders's picture remains a visual shorthand for the pressing need to save the planet from our worst behavior.
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"Copenhagen" is shorthand for Niels Bohr, whose famous institute there served as unofficial world headquarters for quantum theory beginning in the 1920s.
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In bemoaning divisions in the country in September, Mr. Moore used a racialized shorthand to refer to Native Americans and Asian-Americans.
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When the choir recorded the new arrangement, it reacquired "bells and whistles," Ms. Gibson's shorthand for more complicated rhythms and additional harmonies.
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Load-to-truck ratios, industry shorthand for the demand for trucks on the road, sharply rose above 2019 levels in mid-February.
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But in this debut novel, the TV writer King squeezes Instagram in as contemporary shorthand, as rote as descriptions of the weather.
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Most of the payments were from a subaccount controlled by China Harbor, named "HPDP Phase 2," shorthand for Hambantota Port Development Project.
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The invocation of him is a hot-wire shorthand that gives an emotional charge to his statements that his audience receives intuitively.
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He longed for a race war and encouraged his members to undertake covert "direct action"—shorthand in militant circles for terrorist attacks.
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The Oval Office is often used as shorthand for the U.S. presidency, but fewer than half of American presidents have worked there.
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For the better part of a decade, the name Hiram Monserrate has been shorthand for the darkest side of New York politics.
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That may be shorthand for a test of an intercontinental ballistic missile — and it could produce a particularly dire cycle of crisis.
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Lulus, once shorthand for payment in lieu of salary, now refer to prized bonuses attached to leadership duties or top committee posts.
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"Chappaquiddick," meanwhile, passed into the political lexicon, becoming a form of shorthand to denote a scandal that can sink a politician's career.
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Friends since they met at The Times in the mid-1990s, the two talk in the shorthand of an old married couple.
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And that's something Trump would exploit, because it appeals to his base as a shorthand for everything they don't like about liberals.
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Referring to the Affordable Care Act as Obamacare plays into the hands of the conservative right who have weaponized that shorthand label.
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There was a time when it wasn't unusual to hear visitors use South Beach as shorthand for the entire Miami metropolitan area.
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"215:3:58, which is cultivating marijuana, we call it farming for shorthand," said David Frost, a District Attorney for Monterey County.
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They have been married for 5 years, so of course Princess Kate and Prince William have developed a romantic shorthand all their own.
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The younger Flynn has also frequently used the term "cuck" -- a shorthand slur for cuck-conservative, which combines the words cuckold and conservative.
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But there's also a dark underbelly to introducing ourselves with this kind of shorthand: When labels go wrong, they can lead to stereotypes.
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An obvious reason why EDM has become shorthand for dance music is probably the fact the generic name itself tends to generate confusion.
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The shorthand used for this unique potential of interactive media is empathy, usually in reference to how players identify with a game's protagonist.
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The show operates within a kind of gay shorthand that's often only found in exclusively gay-centered shows (think Looking, Queer as Folk).
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"Giving off Kathleen Hale vibes" is now a kind of shorthand for some reviewers to describe an author too fixated on their criticisms.
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"I know that people look at the American South as shorthand for Negro oppression, the capital of which would be Mississippi," she says.
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One of the things I say in the talk is that empathy has become shorthand for our collective desire to give a shit.
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In three little words, Harris conveyed a big idea, and made it easier for product managers at big companies to discuss in shorthand.
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Some politicians declare that they value women's unique role, which can be shorthand for keeping married women at home looking after the kids.
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In the shorthand of the era, it provided a roll call of martyrdom: the Cradock Four and the Pebco Three, among many others.
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Meanwhile, she found shorthand was useful when she wanted to eavesdrop, listening in on "chance remarks overheard on a train, in a restaurant".
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The three-word phrase now doubles as shorthand for when a situation becomes so terrible our brains refuse to grapple with its severity.
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In fact, it is shorthand for a daring approach to monetary policy: printing money to fund government spending or to give people cash.
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Generally speaking, we've been referring to the upcoming sequel to Ridley Scott's 1982 sci-fi classic with a grab bag of shorthand titles.
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When I was freelancing and dreaming of a salaried job, I used the term as shorthand for health insurance and paid vacation days.
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Most of the reason for these delays stems from the fact that rocket science is shorthand for something really difficult for a reason.
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For years, Democrats worked to make sure that "Benghazi," in the context of the political culture, became a shorthand for cynical partisan overreach.
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The idea of calling someone your "work wife;" of that being the office in-joke, a professional and personal shorthand for productive closeness.
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"As you see, they've already got the shorthand of their characters and there is definitely on-camera chemistry between the two," he said.
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The title itself acquires multiple meanings, whether as an affectionate shorthand for kisses, a mathematical symbol or simply a signifier of the unknowable.
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Where ghosting traditionally has been shorthand for an abrupt, unexplained exit from a relationship, Hinge's feature is more for the Casper-level ghoster.
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Occasionally, a particular year transcends its function as a temporal marker to become shorthand for all the tumult that occurred within its parameters.
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The Sanders campaign accused Clinton of shifting her stance on the "extreme and risky" process of hydraulic fracturing, known in shorthand as fracking.
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In Germany, "multiculturalism" has become shorthand for larger questions of how to absorb migrants and whether there is a degree of minimum assimilation.
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Their names have since become shorthand for two people who act and dress in the exact same way — it's usually not a compliment.
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A reference to Google Glass is shorthand for hubris, foolishness, a tech company completely missing the mark on what regular human beings like.
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"As you see, they've already got the shorthand of their characters and there is definitely on-camera chemistry between the two," he said.
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After all, the "ducks" (short for DUKW, a manufacturing shorthand indicating their design and all-wheel drive capabilities) had survived a lot worse.
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Whatever the book's merits, its title serves as handy shorthand for an often-mythologized period, one that has become movieland's own paradise lost.
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Their sole night together — revisited repeatedly throughout the film in increasing detail — unspools with little preamble and the clichéd shorthand of sexual fantasy.
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Cfius described Broadcom's approach to acquisitions as akin to private equity, shorthand for reducing research spending and laying off workers to bolster profitability.
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The Swiss bank UBS has had success with this strategy, and "doing a UBS" is now shorthand for slimming down in investment banking.
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The new law breaks that peace, by limiting like-kind exchanges to "real property," which is shorthand for land or other real estate.
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"The right uniform immediately exudes trust and power — it's a shorthand that says, 'Don't worry, I know what I'm doing,'" Ms. Craik said.
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Hootie became, to some, a punch line — shorthand for the kind of middlebrow rock music that arrived in the wake of grunge's demise.
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As a child, I was always told, "Use your words" — shorthand for saying precisely what I mean and what I expect from people.
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That said, on Tuesday night, it looked like the simplistic and reductive account actually provides a pretty good shorthand for what's going on.
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"One country, two systems" — the shorthand to describe China's and Hong Kong's separate governance structures — has brought with it one country, two internets.
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He is famous at the level of global shorthand, known even to the type of people who pride themselves on ignoring pop culture.
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Other text messages contain shorthand about discussions surrounding the Trump and Clinton investigations which are likely to raise new questions among GOP lawmakers.
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The documents that Mr. Trump signed on Saturday referred to the group as ISIS, shorthand for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
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Affronted, the Koch brothers, whose political spending has made their name a shorthand for special-interest clout, withheld their financial support from Trump.
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Though scores are often used as a shorthand for quality, they correlate closely with the socioeconomic level of the children in a school.
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His book promises a series of distillations of the fictional experience; but his reliance on shorthand risks turning that solution into a commodity.
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While no single gauge can provide a complete impression of the economic outlook, the LEI is often used as shorthand for economic expectations.
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That's a shorthand for what we've been doing this entire time—and what I expected us to be doing from here and beyond.
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The loud, clashing patterns worn by several characters in this episode were a visual shorthand for the confusion among and distance between them.
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That can mean leaning on ambiguity and trope, using the established vernacular of your genre as a shorthand without giving too much away.
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At the last debate before the start of the election year, the fancy venue became shorthand for high-dollar fundraisers — the kind Sens.
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Even now, a decade later, the phrase "Hunger Games" is regularly used as a shorthand for any situation where there's competition for resources.
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I mean, he's saying ... Which is all shorthand for, I never expected to be still running for president in the summer of 220.
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A counterpoint to the view that all porn is misogynistic and exploitative, it's shorthand for smut created in a generally non-shitty manner.
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The key buzzword here is presence, shorthand for technology and content that can trick the brain into believing it is somewhere it's not.
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Christie I and Christie II have become the titular shorthand used by lawyers and the news media to refer to two previous appellate decisions.
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It was perhaps inevitable that Wilder's unforgettable performance as Willy Wonka in the enduring movie would end up remixed and reimagined as online shorthand.
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EDGE, shorthand for Enhanced Dynamic Geo-Social Environment, is a $5.6 million VR program developed by the U.S. Army and the Homeland Security Department.
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A pro-government newspaper claimed the attack on New Year's Day was the work of a "mastermind", shorthand for an alliance of Western powers.
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While income inequality has become a popular shorthand for class tensions in the US, it is wealth that is the real marker of difference.
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The textbook answer is that Resident Evil 27: Biohazard (shorthand: RE7) is Capcom's latest survival horror game in its very long and scary series.
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She is a serious and inspired action painter whose work at its strongest brings Howard Hodgkin's paintings to mind, who employs similar painterly shorthand.
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Because we're human beings who like patterns, there's a temptation to "fall into shorthand" and just say you have a type, Dr. Addison says.
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It has become shorthand for China's overseas aid, state-led investment abroad and for Mr Xi's much-ballyhooed "great-power diplomacy with Chinese characteristics".
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The floppy disk lives on as technical shorthand instead of a physical object — that is, until everyone rightfully adopts the "ctrl/command + S" shortcut.
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Those are good building blocks to start on, especially as a shorthand for worldbuilding, and an opportunity to further expand the existing Trek world.
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A couple of spacewalking veterans went on a spacewalk to fix a component called a Pump Flow Control Subassembly, or PFCS in space shorthand.
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The e—jπ2ft term looks a little terrifying, but it's actually just shorthand that mathematicians use to represent those sinusoids we've been talking about.
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Hell, I've done it myself; it's a convenient, faintly ominous, and click-generating shorthand for referring to the phenomenon of automation in the workplace.
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It has been two full seasons since these NFL protests against racial injustice began, and lazy press continues to promote a deliberately false shorthand.
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How it works: The robots are made from a single strand of DNA built from four chemicals: A, C, T and G, for shorthand.
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Mr Johnson said at the weekend that Mr Longworth had become a victim of "project fear", shorthand among Eurosceptics for the In camp's tactics.
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As people outside of that movement and companies adopted, appropriated, and marketed the idea, body positivity increasingly became a narrow shorthand for self-love.
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It was already popular in academia, a shorthand for describing experiences that used visuals and sensors to combine virtual elements with the real world.
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Sometimes a simple spell check isn't enough — because writing is a tricky thing, riddled with context, slang, shorthand, acronyms, and other grammar-related traps.
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But there are also likely to be new questions over the texts, as many of them are cryptic and use shorthand that isn't clear.
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Loads of girls and one guy, shorthand for the fact that even in the twenty-first century, ladies, it's men who do the choosing.
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" Her early friends included "radical lesbians who joined the marines, professional car thieves, drug addicts who died, a rock star, and one shorthand typist.
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" Yeah, that title looks like it might have emigrated from Eastern Europe, but it's actually Hammack's catchy and caustic shorthand for "I appreciate you.
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It's visual shorthand for normalcy, in other words, a way to establish that the family dynamic we're watching is no different than our own.
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The film became his shorthand for a memory of early-adolescent autonomy: the thrilling feeling of first pulling away, burrowing down, and becoming himself.
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Like 18th-century portraits snipped out of black paper, a silhouette in fashion acts as a visual shorthand for a certain moment in time.
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Mind reading is psychologists' shorthand for treating other animals as having something like desires and beliefs that work together to produce choices in behavior.
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These funds target a specific level of volatility to maintain a constant level of risk — which is usually shorthand for how much they gyrate.
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Even though Satterberg pushed for the amendment, he said that people want "some kind of shorthand" to know a candidate's beliefs, the Times reported.
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Wayne's verse is basically all metaphorical punchlines (considering that "metaphors and punchlines" is rap shorthand for "nerdy lyrical shit," a good choice) about love.
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Since the movie's release in 1984, its title has become shorthand for the nightmare scenario of what will happen when artificial intelligence meets weapons.
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"Populism" has become a convenient shorthand for the nihilistic backlash, and the term has come to invoke a collection of largely irrational cultural tropes.
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In time, the Benghazi attacks came to serve as shorthand for failures by Hillary Clinton, then the nation's top diplomat, and President Barack Obama.
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The slogan "Remember Mississippi" has become shorthand around here for the unshakable belief among conservative activists that Senator Thad Cochran occupies a stolen seat.
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The idea of "healthy eating" is shorthand for food that doesn't make us fat, as though this were the only measure of good health.
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"Fetal heartbeat" is a term often used by obstetricians with patients as a shorthand — but one many doctors never expected would become so politicized.
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Eight months after the unpopular move to below-zero rates, the BOJ adopted so-called yield curve control, known in BOJ shorthand as YCC.
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The treatment plant was designed to filter out high levels of Trihalomethanes, known by the shorthand THMs, which Health Canada says can cause cancer.
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Terms like "20123-year flood" and "100-year flood" are used as shorthand by government officials and actuaries, but they can confuse the public.
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For decades, the best players in the world found their way to "Forest Hills" — the shorthand for the American quadrant of the Grand Slam.
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Note Scroll to the bottom for a shorthand summary of the GOP proposal based on CNN's read of the 2500-page proposal Thursday night.
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The shorthand transforms racism, something an aggressor does, into race, something the target is, in a sleight of hand that is easy to miss.
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Terms like "21995-year flood" and "100-year flood" are used as shorthand by government officials and actuaries, but they can confuse the public.
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But after Warren closed the door, Colbert removed the "I" from the "VIP" sign, leaving only the two letters denoting shorthand for vice president.
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Terms like "500-year flood" and "100-year flood" are used as shorthand by government officials and actuaries, but they can confuse the public.
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Even before his electoral success, "Kais Saied" had become online shorthand for moral authority, thanks to his TV interviews about the post-revolution constitution.
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The messages may have been intended to be humorous because a lot of them included LOL, Internet shorthand for laughing out loud, Sherrard said.
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She raised questions about how "electability" had essentially become shorthand for "white" (without saying it quite so explicitly), and did it in Detroit, Michigan.
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For starters, "self-driving cars" is the technically incorrect shorthand applied to a range of vehicle functions, all under the umbrella of autonomous driving.
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That also means CODELs -- Hill shorthand for congressional delegations going on long-scheduled official foreign trips -- are scheduled to depart Friday night and Saturday.
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"We stan a brooch queen," wrote Tom Rasmussen, author of "Diary of a Drag Queen," on Twitter, using social media shorthand for obsessive love.
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"We stan a brooch queen," wrote Tom Rasmussen, author of "Diary of a Drag Queen," on Twitter, using social media shorthand for obsessive love.
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What was shorthand for a group of friends can now be seen on T-shirts, in Tinder bios (420 friendly) and throughout pop culture.
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Its language was couched in the argot of "resources," IBM's term for employees, and "EP's," its shorthand for early professionals or recent college graduates.
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But Giuliani believed this conspiracy theory, referred to as "Crowdstrike," shorthand for the company that discovered the Russian hack, would aid his client's reelection.
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Over time, "based on a true story" has become a movie-marketing cliché, shorthand for quality in a world full of award-hungry biopics.
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It has become more of a symbol, a celluloid emoji used by tourists and filmmakers as a shorthand way of conveying time and place.
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At a moment when "American" has become shorthand for "white" and "kebab" a slur directed at Muslims, I feel moved to ask these questions.
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Another day, another news cycle dominated by "the memo" — the shorthand for a GOP-crafted document detailing alleged abuses of the FBI's surveillance power.
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The Eleusian is casually referred to by the likes of Lucian and Quintilian, and became shorthand for the artistic rendering of life through art.
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Or it might be Forrer's concise view of human history, a shorthand representation of where all our tugging, hugging, and throttling has gotten us.
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In the extreme, banking executives worry about a painful economic and financial fallout from a British exit — known, in the political shorthand, as a Brexit.
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It's worth noting that when the bot's shorthand is explained, the resulting conversation was both understandable and not nearly as creepy as it seemed before.
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That can be a lot to remember so here's a shorthand version that can be applied in just about every situation: don't be an asshole.
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" Strzok, in that exchange, also said he doesn&apost even remember sending the "stop" Trump text, noting it was written late at night, "in shorthand.
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But all of us know the shorthand, and blackface is up there as one of the shortest and most effective outlines, both easy and devastating.
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Yes, that's supported by a lot of polling evidence -- but it's also the stuff of political shorthand, lazily forcing individuals and churches into political columns.
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Some readers may love the numerical shorthand, but many use Rotten Tomatoes — and its superior sibling, Metacritic — to find new critics and read more opinions.
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What was once an altruistic warning has become shorthand for "mildly rude," and used as a tool by the online press to reel in traffic.
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Kiev's central square, the Maidan, was the site of two revolutions, and its name has become a kind of universal shorthand for a popular uprising.
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The tattoo is shorthand for mi vida loca, or "my crazy life", and its wearers are 463% more likely to have been jailed for murder.
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But outside money has been shaping the race, and to many voters, "super PAC" is simply shorthand for describing a mysterious source of campaign spending.
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In red, they're hopelessly romantic, botanical shorthand for I love you; yellow is vibrant and cheerful, a ray of sunshine in a thrift-shop vase.
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A shorthand for this obligation is "Rule of Law," and it has been part of the U.S. Constitution since the eighteenth century's bill of rights.
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Trump uses the term as shorthand for everything from media bias to voter fraud, and his supporters seem to have taken his claims to heart.
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And now that the hashtag has become something of a shorthand for naming experiences of sexual violence, there's little doubt of its impact on survivors.
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Twice a week the orthopedic surgeon came to examine patients, and my job was to take down his notes shorthand, and then type them out.
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The sounds of suffering, the sounds of death, and a musical score written from the depths of loss and tragedy shouldn't just be marketing shorthand.
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That is the shorthand name for the 2010 Supreme Court decision that has to rank among the most destructive to American democracy ever handed down.
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After seeing it in action, assessing objects by "sparking joy" felt less like a harsh directive, and more like a shorthand that made sorting easier.
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In this book, he seems to bring a lot clever inventiveness to coloring the pages, and a lot of it is also design shorthand too.
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The goal of 5G, shorthand for fifth-generation, is to bring about networks that deliver wireless internet at much faster speeds and with increased capacity.
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The goal of 28500G, shorthand for fifth-generation, is to bring about networks that deliver wireless internet at much faster speeds and with increased capacity.
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They are responsible for their own taxes — in fact, the contractor tax form, "1099," is often used as shorthand distinguishing them from employees ("W-2s").
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Yet in each case, something — a shop sign, a type of building, the color of the air — tells you, in shorthand-fashion, where you are.
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The Handmaid's Tale may be useful cultural shorthand, and its imagery will send a powerful message for as long as there are outrages to protest.
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So why not embrace moon shot as a metaphor rather than a directive, an inspirational shorthand for pouring energy and resources into a nasty problem?
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Countless editorials, roundtables, and expert segments all fed the perception that "Russia collusion," an imprecise narrative shorthand for a nonexistent offense, would inevitably be proven.
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That's what has happened in the past five years to the basics of humans getting around town, or "mobility" in the shorthand of Silicon Valley.
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The ugly word Brexit — coined ahead of the referendum as a shorthand conflation for 'British exit' — was apparently now lodged in the lexicon for good.
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The word "hamburger" lets the customer know approximately what they're getting, it's a useful shorthand that lets them parse menus that across many different restaurants.
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At the same time, what character development there is basically relies on the shorthand of the situation and cultural stereotyping, albeit with an arched eyebrow.
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It's a shorthand for public announcements to convey a set of restrictions, but on its own, it has no set definition of what is allowed.
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Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google's parent company — often referred to in the markets by the shorthand FANG — have become a favorite combination for stock investors.
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Either way, he said, it's always initials — he'd never heard of someone monogramming their number, even an athlete, who is often known by that shorthand.
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One later work in the gallery, Kelley's "Missing Time Color Exercise #2" (1998), serves as shorthand for the artist's practice and the exhibition in general.
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It's generally accepted that "soccer" or "socca'" began as British shorthand for "association football" to distinguish it from "rugby football," which is a different game.
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But there is also a shorthand for these questions, and our national political reporter Matt Flegenheimer offers a primer in our series Understanding the Times.
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Today is the Northern Hemisphere's winter solstice, also known as the shortest day of the year — shorthand for the day that gets the least sunlight.
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We went through this election trying to decide who was good and who was bad, using the judgment of well-known people as a shorthand.
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The phrase became a certain savvy shorthand, a proven truth about "how things really work" that the old media was just too blind to see.
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" Azar defended Trump's claim a day earlier during a tour of the CDC, insisting the president was merely "using a shorthand" and "knows the numbers.
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Later films like "Mississippi Burning" use similar scenes as a shorthand to distinguish the bad Southern white racists from the good Northern white F.B.I. investigators.
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In fact, white women without a four-year degree (pollster shorthand for the white working class) raised their vote margin for Democrats by 13 points.
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It's a helpful sort of shorthand — heck, even Facebook included a clip-on shutter in hopes of nipping some of those concerns in the bud.
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Slowly, she expanded on Reddy's sparse directions, written in shorthand for more experienced cooks, and carefully explained the terms and techniques for novices like herself.
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"Ecopiety" is a shorthand term I use to refer to contemporary practices of environmental (or "green") virtue, through daily, voluntary works of duty and obligation.
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Is "persuadable" simply shorthand for white working-class voters here, in a way that just makes this one more strategy for winning back those voters?
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In a series of personal but unsentimental essays, she gave succinct shorthand to a familiar female experience that before had gone unarticulated, perhaps even unrecognized.
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The line's notorious state of non-fruition had made it a perennial punch line, a home-town Godot, shorthand for decades of public-works failure.
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The shorthand definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters of absolute decline of gross domestic product, however, that has never been the official criterion.
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But Giuliani believed this conspiracy theory, referred to as "Crowdstrike," shorthand for the company that discovered the Russian hack, would aid his client's re-election.
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"The reason we got into crypto was not to partner with a bank, but to replace them," Mr. Chou said, using the shorthand for cryptocurrencies.
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That was evidently shorthand for Mr. Gordhan's courageous resistance to Mr. Zuma's spending schemes, including a hugely expensive deal with Russia for nuclear power plants.
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"We didn't want to necessarily have a couture feel," McCollough says of the collection — couture being fashion shorthand for anything embroidered, embellished or generally worked.
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Visibly toned abdominal muscles have long served as a shorthand for sexiness, at least when it comes to media portrayals of cinema hotties and celebrities.
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The phrase "on fleek" — a saucy shorthand for aesthetic excellence — was invented in 217 by a 22016-year-old Vine user named Kayla Lewis, a.k.a.
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"Zelensky needed to go to a microphone and basically there needed to be three words in the message, and that was the shorthand," Kent added.
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We can fight in shorthand because we're so well acquainted with each other's grievances that we don't need to go through the whole argument anymore.
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The Light Kevin's "alters" frequently reference stepping into "the light," a shorthand phrase describing when a personality has taken control of his body and mind.
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Here's a shorthand way to quickly evaluate how to interpret the returns as they come in: Illinois is the most important contest to watch today.
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ICE is shorthand for US Immigration Customs and Enforcement, and many activists on the left see the agency as emboldened and out-of-control under Trump.
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He has used the word "cuck" — a shorthand slur for cuck-conservative which combines the word cuckold and conservative — a number of times on social media.
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The soccer ball shape of the molecule is due to the arrangement of 60 carbon atoms in a hollow sphere, giving them the shorthand of C60.
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One of them wears a sleeveless jacket bearing the mark "MS13," shorthand for the Los Angeles-based, internationally active, and Latin America-associated gang Mara Salvatrucha.
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But for those bands, any reference to mainstream pop culture was almost always meant to be ironic or condescending—it's used as shorthand for mass idiocy.
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Ansari and Yang wrote their own experiences instead of "relatable" (showbiz shorthand for "white straight cisgender male") stories that had been told hundreds of times before.
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Sharapova painted a shorthand cultural picture we have come to understand very well, in which a dainty white lady is menaced by a hulking black specter.
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In the sickly sweet coffee drink, known in grating shorthand as the PSL, Starbucks has created a social phenomenon that transcends a relatively simple caffeinated concoction.
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The question of whether or not someone approves of Rogue One has become meaningful, legible shorthand for exactly where that person falls in the culture wars.
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But using that shorthand leaves out transfeminine people, trans men, and other queer people who experience gendered violence and oppression, too, often at much higher rates.
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The resulting figure might be a useful shorthand for many purposes (not least juicy media headlines), but — as our research found — it can be wildly inaccurate.
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It's not unlike how "comics" is often used as a shorthand for DC / Marvel superhero comics, rather than a rich collection of styles, ideas, and stories.
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Seagal, Stallone, and their contemporaries are beloved because they're cultural shorthand: they are what we watched before we drowned in the deluge of things to watch.
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For anxious investors, Google X was also shorthand for the company's freewheeling spending — money sunk into initiatives that are unproven or that flopped, like Google Glass.
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These background facts are alluded to in shorthand dialogue, but anyone who's watched a couple of hours of American television can probably fill in the blanks.
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Both films are under 80 minutes in runtime, so this shorthand — along with Karloff's gift for pantomime — works effectively in establishing antagonists as soon as possible.
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They are in some ways, a joke — Scarface posters, in particular, have become a cultural shorthand for "unstimulating heterosexual man," and are used as such regularly.
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"It's a really rough shorthand for, 'I want someone who is like me, values the things I value, and thinks the way I think,'" said Jonason.
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As the guys run through the set, they work in a kind of exacting shorthand, calling out missed notes or lags, fixing them, and moving on.
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"Q" is a shorthand for QAnon, an anonymous internet purveyor of pro-Trump conspiracy theories that are gaining traction among the the president's most vocal fans.
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It served as an admirable bit of spiritual shorthand that made them seem tolerant while also underlining their identity as serious men and women of faith.
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You had shorthand—the court reporters took all the occurrence of testimony, and they would never convert that into readable materials unless you had an appeal.
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Her image has graced just about any product imaginable and serves as a handy shorthand for a certain type of person's dorm room or first apartment.
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"I was just getting to learn how to work with them and get to know them, so we hadn't developed our shorthand language yet," she explains.
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David Korins's picturesque shorthand sets; Emily Rebholz's flavorful costumes; Ben Stanton's shadow-steeped lighting and Matt Tierney's sound all match the prevailing tone of poisoned picaresque.
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A shorthand, enigmatic quality permeates the whole of Kiefer's notebooks, often leading to confusion about otherwise banal, this-worldly events in the artist's day-to-day.
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These days, the Wu-Tang Clan is an abstraction — a symbol, a logo, shorthand for a kind of unpredictability that mainstream hip-hop has largely abandoned.
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Comanche took line honors in 2015 in "the Hobart," the shorthand Australians use for the annual spectacle, which begins the day after Christmas in Sydney Harbor.
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And I think what happened in the postmortems was, we've come up with a lot of explanations that are shorthand for us, but not for them.
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By the time they were over, "Watergate" had transformed from shorthand for a bungled burglary into a metonym for a much wider range of administration corruption.
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The Kahlo likeness — reduced to a shorthand of flower-studded braids, unibrow, rosy lips and bright blouse — gazes today from products including socks and yoga pants.
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The Oval Office is often used as shorthand for the U.S. presidency, but did you know that fewer than half of the presidents have worked there?
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The text at the heart of the trial was equally ordinary in a culture where streams of shorthand cellphone messages have become ingrained in modern life.
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A video that short forces the user to cut the fat on their jokes and use shorthand that's easily readable in order to enhance their punchlines.
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For Mr. Walsh, Uber is shorthand for everything he believes is wrong with globalization — and proof that successive governments have failed hard-working citizens like him.
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A strategy that went from a "good war" to the shorthand "Afghan good enough" reflects the president's coming to terms with what was possible in Afghanistan.
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Naturally, Alicia is rather stoic during the trip as she sits in the back of the bus with her sunglasses on (shorthand for "Alicia is angry").
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Bush's infamous praise of FEMA director Michael Brown -- "Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job" -- became an internet meme that served as shorthand for clueless self-congratulation.
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The tendency toward shorthand often reduces the French New Wave to just five directors: Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette and Claude Chabrol.
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In antiquity, it was a shorthand means of signifying the entirety of the Roman state by referencing its two component parts: Rome's Senate and her people.
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But among those who have long dealt with the news media, like politicians and their charges, there is occasionally a sort of shorthand for these questions.
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But the community quickly developed a shorthand to refer to it: "the tragedy," or "12/14," the date of the anniversary, which is occurring yet again.
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The trend bodes well for producers in the Cerrado's frontier region known as Matopiba, shorthand for the northeastern Brazilian states of Maranhao, Tocantins, Piaui and Bahia.
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"If I ask you what Paris looks like, you'll probably default to the Eiffel Tower or Notre Dame as shorthand for the city," Fowkes told Hyperallergic.
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"White people" is a shorthand in these communities, one that's used to capture the way that many whites still act in clueless and/or racist ways.
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Nowadays we like to use the term "medieval" to name spectacularly brutal violence, as shorthand for wildly unequal gender relations, for extreme restrictions on women's sexuality.
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So it should come as no shock that those who have been in the online dating game for a little while have developed a sort of shorthand.
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Stalingrad, the name of the city on the Volga river between 2000 and 29, is now often shorthand for one of the most violent battles in history.
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To some, the fallout offers a cautionary tale of what not to do, turning the state into a shorthand for bad policy decisions leading to dire consequences.
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The shorthand for this occurrence is often referred to as "parental rights for rapists," a phrase that's mind-boggling but accurate in its representation of the issue.
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Typically, when people talk of passing—a shorthand for "racial passing"—they are referring to African Americans presenting as white in order to escape slavery or discrimination.
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In the four years since Tinder's launch, the right swipe has become the prevailing signifier of our generation—shorthand for like, lust, and (possibly, hopefully, finally) love.
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When you can shorthand "blinking white guy" and have people understand exactly which blinking white guy you're talking about, your reaction GIF has reached peak internet saturation.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads New York is full of landmarks that are recognizable to the point where they're the whole world's shorthand for the city.
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Whenever you spend a lot of time in a confined space with a group of people, it's not uncommon for a new language to develop. Slang. Shorthand.
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That description is really a shorthand for saying that algorithms are developed that embody mechanisms for creating textual content as output, based on data provided as input.
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Urban Dictionary defined "NSFW" (short for "Not Safe for Work") back in 2003, before the shorthand peaked in 2015 when it was added to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary.
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The City, shorthand for the square mile synonymous with London's financial district, has been a huge strategic and financial asset to the UK for almost 22 years.
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When Trump's Twitter typo "covfefe" blew up in May 2017, it became a type of shorthand in meme culture — an in-joke about the state of memes.
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He's intelligent, creative, swift, can act, write, take shorthand like an ace (he's modest, he can't throw the shit like me, but don't let it deceive you).
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And though it's nearly impossible to replicate Juvenile's voice and flow, his iconography has become cultural shorthand for an extremely specific time and place in hip-hop.
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Though "lol" reportedly predates the internet, a man named Wayne Pearson claims to have invented the shorthand in the '80s as a way to express laughter online.
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A White House official, who shall remain nameless, has minted an emoji shorthand to refer to Anthony Scaramucci in the official's text message conversations with outside advisers.
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It's not so much a technology for creating new digital humans as it is a tool for injecting a visual shorthand for someone into the digital world.
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GIFs are now a form of visual shorthand — a language that draws on culturally resonant moments to communicate the full range of human emotions in just seconds.
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Watch: The Australian Model Calling Out Fashion's Size Hierarchy In part, berets are fashionable now because they're lazy aesthetic shorthand to indicate political radicalism and counter-culture.
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You can marvel what I say, as you ghost ride away Referred to shorthand as "Ziam," this is another of the One Direction fandom's most popular theories.
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George Soros has become a lightning rod for the far right and for anti-Semites across the world -- and serves as dog-whistle shorthand for such groups.
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"Dexit" is a term coined by a section of the Pokémon community as a shorthand for the fact that the new games wouldn't have a National Dex.
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Roth was so prodigious and varied in his output that no shorthand characterization of his work would easily suffice, no matter how many times people would try.
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Some of the officers, Ms. Leovy writes, have a cruel shorthand for the kind of case that has neither suspect nor story: N.H.I., for No Human Involved.
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He likes to cite Lambos—as in Lamborghini, the cryptobro trophy ride of choice—as shorthand for the excessive trappings of wealth, which do not interest him.
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Some companies use it to indicate a willingness to chase intruders while they remain inside a client's network; for others, it is coy shorthand for hacking back.
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Around the nation's wildfire hot zones, the phrase "defensible space" (hashtag #defensiblespace) is now commonplace shorthand for clearing flammable brush and litter around homes in certain ways.
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"Broken windows," a shorthand term for the strategy of aggressively policing minor violations to prevent serious and violent crimes, came to mean different things to different people.
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There's nothing special about our luck, not really—ping-pong tables are the figurehead at the prow of the tech industry, a class ring, shorthand, a punchline.
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But association with the Soviet Union quickly became a political liability in America, where "Communist" and "Socialist" were all but interchangeable — shorthand for tyranny, disloyalty and treason.
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The film thrives when Conboy employs techniques other than talking heads, particularly when he creates a smart, tech-savvy visual shorthand for DBA's rapid growth and expansion.
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"Awareness" is all too often shorthand for "we're not going to do anything, really" but in the case of malaria prevention, awareness and education is absolutely essential.
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They called themselves "Gothics," shorthand for a composite of binding beliefs and aesthetics from different rock subgenres, including dark clothing, severe makeup and an obsession with death.
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But otherwise this is a style that's become unfashionable, something comedy nerds sneered at; "laugh track" is shorthand for not merely unfunny but also worthy of scorn.
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All day, before as more than 24,000 ticket holders filed in for the charity game, the shorthand for other tragedies ricocheted through the Capitol. Giffords. Newtown. Orlando.
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The Nikkatsu films became their own genre, known as roman porno (either shorthand for romantic pornography or a term derived from the French word for novel, roman).
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Since then, the promotional shorthand for this take on Puccini's repertory staple has held that it is cinematic — a worthy extension of Mr. Minghella's work in film.
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The term "hard hats" even became shorthand for working people with a conservative patriotism, and New York tabloid reporters still use the term to denote construction workers.
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But lost in that shorthand is the idea that there&aposs some significant overlap in appeal between the two men that is drowned out amid the punditry.
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Mr. Minassian, 25, also wrote of an "incel rebellion," referring to a term, shorthand for "involuntary celibates," used online by a community of misogynists to describe themselves.
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It was then that she took her first documentary photograph, "White Angel Breadline," which today remains a kind of visual shorthand for food scarcity during the Depression.
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In 21927th-century Holland, it was responsible for the frenzy called tulipomania, which drove bulb prices to absurd levels and is now shorthand for ruinous economic bubbles.
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I was in the college cohort, but because my mother taught the commercial kids, I also learned Gregg shorthand, typing, bookkeeping and how to be a receptionist.
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The technique isn't always successful and the flurry of pop cultural name checks can read like a confounding shorthand — especially the overwhelming array of bands and singers.
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Even investors in Zume are aware that, to some, the company has become an easy shorthand for tech insiders looking to portray an industry untethered from reality.
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"Vaping" is shorthand for inhaling vaporized liquid, usually a mixture of nicotine and oil heated by a battery-powered atomizer in an e-cigarette or larger vaporizer.
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But in presidential elections, the firm is sometimes hired by candidates, party organizations or donors to do political "oppo" work — shorthand for opposition research — on the side.
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Eighty-two percent of the steel-clad building, whose name is shorthand for "timber, technology and transit," is leased to tenants like Amazon, which occupies three floors.
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Chopped simply to "crooked" at times — no name necessary — by the Trump team, the tag became an instant shorthand for criticism of the Clinton family for dishonesty.
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