But then again, with all the fancy terms being bandied about and a plethora of ways that one can now take risk out of your portfolio, perhaps some new phrases are indeed warranted.
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Yet in the dying days of his relatively short eight-year papacy, Pope Benedict XVI has been putting out new coded phrases which, upon analysis, reveal the extent of his frustration at the administrative infighting he has had to endure among mainly Italian careerist clerics inside the Vatican.
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Improve your vocabulary and integrate new words and phrases as you become more interesting and even exciting to listen to.
Encarta's other selling points: lots of new words and phrases, like gonk (to lie, especially in an on-line conversation) and yadda yadda yadda.
An evolution of the Hotwords technology announced in September, Swype Living Language uses crowdsourcing to analyze new words and phrases in real-time, continuously updating our language dictionaries.
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There are at least 13 commissions for inventing new French words or phrases.
The new dictionary contains such phrases as "gym rat" - somebody who spends a lot of time exercising - and "daddy track" - a man who gives up his career to look after his children.
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All of these phrases bring a new conversation to our education practice and allow us to re-define where, when, and how learning happens.
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In addition, the new Reader line offers users on-screen functionality to look up words and phrases with the built-in New Oxford American Dictionary, Second Edition and Oxford Dictionary of English eDictionaries, as well as 10 translation dictionaries in languages such as French, German, Spanish, Italian and Dutch.
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The Concise OED has been in print since 1911 and the new revised eleventh edition contains 240, 000 words, phrases and definitions.
" Salinger spoke with Costa for 45 minutes, patiently answering his questions and offering help in the form of cheery phrases, such as "This is a new form they came out with in January" and "There's a form to fill out for that--I believe it's 83-79.
Marked by a patently obvious blue button, the new addition serves up relevant prior art results by using key phrases from a patent's text and putting them together in a search query.
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With Graph Search you combine phrases (for example: "my friends in New York who like Jay-Z") to get that set of people, places, photos or other content that's been shared on Facebook.
Our test car was the TL with SH-AWD ("super-handling all-wheel drive, " one of my favorite overblown Japanese brand phrases) equipped with the 3.7-liter V6 and new-for-2012 six-speed automatic (previously a five-speed).
In fact, all the conservative Republicans, from Newt Gingrich to Pete Wilson, who have sought political advantage by exploiting white resentment should come and stand in the charred ruins of the New Liberty Baptist Church in Tyler, a tiny hamlet 10 miles east of Selma, and wonder if their coded phrases encouraged the arsonists.
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