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44 examples of Parlance in a sentence

And all the components are there which are now in common parlance, in our vocabulary, you know, 30-odd years later: wind energy, recycling, biomass, solar cells.
The next time she went to see her physician, he performed an electrocardiogram, and this showed that she'd had a large heart attack, or a "myocardial infarction" in medical parlance.
It might be enjoyed by anybody who thinks that it would be funny to see his/her mother in a crowded discotheque full of people half her age "inventing" some totally ridiculous dance in a completely misguided effort to be "hip" (in the parlance of that age).
After being thrown off and getting chased by Indians (or in today's parlance, Native Americans), Roscoe stumbles into the town saloon where he foils robber St. John's holdup and takes his guns.
"Fanaa" is not a word in common parlance.
Similarly, bKash now dominates the payments system in Bangladesh to such a degree that “bKashing” has become common Bengali parlance, just as “Xeroxing,” “Hoovering,” and “Googling” are in English.
To use my grandmother’s parlance, it is not “us” who were the liberators, but “them”.
In economists’ parlance, it is the difference between general-equilibrium and partial-equilibrium analysis.
All of them were, in the parlance of the current immigration and refugee debate, “economic migrants.”
If we adopt the parlance employed by al-Qaeda while at the same time proclaiming our intention to communicate with the whole Muslim world, we run the risk of reinforcing al-Qaeda’s message.
Meanwhile, established modes of production were “disrupted,” in twenty-first-century business-school parlance, causing productivity to fall.
While resoluteness can be commendable, a “head-down, maul forward” policy, to use rugby parlance, brings other risks.
What, after all, are the “functions of a foreign agent,” in common parlance, except to serve the interests of a foreign power?
But now, China’s rulers, through Leung, are pushing potentially disastrous policies aimed, in Chinese Communist Party parlance, at “de-colonizing” Hong Kong.
The former argued that nothing less than overthrowing communism – “regime-change” in today’s parlance – would do.
In the Chinese parlance, the practice is called maiguan, literally “buying office.”
The EU, in today’s parlance, has a bandwidth problem: its challenges have multiplied in recent years, as have the summits it holds to address them.
Finally, Hu, Wen, and the rest of the top leadership have turned themselves into superb firefighters with an uncanny ability to, in Party parlance, “nip the seeds of opposition before they sprout.”
But, when firms’ efforts to create shareholder value lead to such far-reaching consequences – or “externalities,” in economists’ parlance – for the rest of society, the argument that self-interest advances social welfare falls apart.
They begin to demand loudly that the loans be neo-drachmatized (“pesified” in Argentine parlance).
It persuades intimidated (often elderly) voters that, in the parlance of the Brexiteers, they can “take back control” of their lives and their countries, primarily by rejecting foreigners.
In the years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Americans always had to be on the front line – battling the enemy abroad to avoid having to battle him at home, in the parlance of the time – while the European allies were perceived as the cleaning staff.
In the diplomatic parlance of the time, this was referred to as “action for action.”
In modern parlance, we’d say that the worker bees were helping blood kin, because blood kin are genetically related.
President Vladimir Putin is the embodiment of nostalgia not so much for Soviet times as for that period’s sacralization of the state, which enabled the government to use, in modern parlance, “fake news” to advance its own ends.
I have explored the idea of “capping” the benefit that individuals can get as a percentage of their total income (their “adjusted gross income,” or AGI in US tax parlance).
Voodoo economics came into parlance in the 1980 presidential election, when George H. W. Bush criticized Ronald Reagan for claiming that his planned tax cuts would pay for themselves.
Over the next century, China became a patchwork of special foreign concessions, spheres of economic influence and missionary enclaves which left it, fen'gua, or “carved up like a melon,” in the parlance of the time.
Regardless of how the Trump administration ultimately performs, its first month of presidential decrees – or, in American political parlance, “executive orders” – can hardly be viewed as a triumph for liberal democracy.
In today’s parlance, we speak of “disruptive technologies.”