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Recent Examples of legalese
Instead, consumers must search about 7,000 words into a privacy policy filled with legalese to find a link to the page.
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Calmatters, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2025
Instead, consumers must search about 7,000 words into a privacy policy filled with legalese to find a link to the page.
—Calmatters, Oc Register, 12 Aug. 2025
Trump’s executive order, then, enters this conversation not as a reform tool but as a political news release dressed in legalese.
—Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2025
Its rhythms shift, as the warm interactions of the troupe contrast sharply with the drab legalese and agonizing emotional accounting required in the world beyond the theater’s walls.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 June 2024
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Calmatters, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2025
Instead, consumers must search about 7,000 words into a privacy policy filled with legalese to find a link to the page.
—Calmatters, Oc Register, 12 Aug. 2025
Trump’s executive order, then, enters this conversation not as a reform tool but as a political news release dressed in legalese.
—Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2025
Its rhythms shift, as the warm interactions of the troupe contrast sharply with the drab legalese and agonizing emotional accounting required in the world beyond the theater’s walls.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for legalese
Noun
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Details of new initiatives were bogged down by mind-numbing bureaucratese.—
Sharon Grigsby,
Dallas News,
11 Apr. 2023
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The most striking aspect of Putin’s failure to accept responsibility for the Kursk disaster was his retreat into bureaucratese.—
Masha Gessen,
The New Yorker,
18 Mar. 2020
Noun
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The overly earnest character speaks in a hilariously cringey Gen Z self-help psychobabble that continuously grates on Enrique’s nerves.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 May 2025
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Sometimes, such content might be portrayed as being valid psychological science versus non-sensical psychobabble.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Meaningless gobbledygook to an outsider, yet powerful to those who know how to wield those sounds properly.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
17 Oct. 2025
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Bob Kring DeBary Congressional bill is full of greed The Great Big Beautiful Bill reads like 950 pages of of gobbledygook distilled into four words: Greedy, stingy, mean and short-sighted.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
2 July 2025
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“Legalese.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/legalese. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.
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