Proverbial in example sentence

Eight of the top 10 performers in 2004 are either oil-exporting countries or post-conflict economies, with the latter’s high annual growth rates explained mostly by the proverbial “dead cat bounce” – the low base period over which growth is measured.

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Those machines go the proverbial junkyard.

So we decided to see if flies could be provoked into showing the kind of behavior that you see by the proverbial wasp at the picnic table, you know, the one that keeps coming back to your hamburger the more vigorously you try to swat it away, and it seems to keep getting irritated.

I never sit at my desk with the proverbial light bulb going off in my head.

One of the Whitopian outlooks that really hit me was a proverbial saying: "One black man is a delightful dinner guest; 50 black men is a ghetto."

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