euphemisms in A Sentence

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    Baseball-related Euphemisms also abound for the"equipment";

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    Why do you think people use Euphemisms?

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    Spare me your Euphemisms.

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    Euphemisms don't bring people back.

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    Patients are often vague or use Euphemisms if embarrassed.

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    Martha, will you show her where we keep the euphemism?"?

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    Current opinion" is usually a euphemism for"go the other way".

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    Is‘demanding accountability' just a euphemism for trying to control someone?

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    American movie censors adopted the term as a euphemism in 1940s.

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    In some languages, various other sensitive subjects give rise to Euphemisms and dysphemisms.

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    Equifax, and many other organizations, are no longer trying to create Euphemisms for compliance.

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    Euphemisms are often a sign that you're uncomfortable talking about your body and your needs.

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    (Oh, and by the way, let's remember that spanking is simply a euphemism for hitting.).

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    Euphemisms often evolve over time into taboo words themselves, through a process described by W.V. O.

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    Euphemisms can also serve to recirculate words that have passed out of use because of negative connotation.

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    When a phrase is used as a euphemism, it often becomes a metaphor whose literal meaning is dropped.

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    You know the ones- they're usually filed under Euphemisms like“stand-ups”,“status”, and“check ins” and happen on a daily or weekly basis.

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    The word señorito is an example, although the euphemism treadmill has turned it to a disparagement, at least in Mexico.

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    The word"señorito" is an example, although the euphemism treadmill has turned it to a disparagement, at least in MexicoFact|date=September 2008.

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    Euphemisms for cancer are used even more so in the Netherlands, because the Dutch word for cancer can be used as a curse word.

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    Where the work itself is seen as distasteful, a euphemism may be used, for example"rodent officer" for a rat-catcher, or"cemetery operative" for a gravedigger.

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    The practice of using Euphemisms for death is likely to have originated with the magical belief that to speak the word"death" was to invite death;

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    Some dysphemisms, especially for death are Euphemisms or dysphemisms for other unpleasant events and thus are unpleasant in their literal meaning, used to generalize a bad event.

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    Also, a scene in the film Patch Adams features Patch(Robin Williams) dressed in an angel costume, reading out various synonyms and Euphemisms for the phrase"to die" to a man dying of cancer.

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    This, presumably, is why self-professed climate“skeptics”- which is a funny way of saying“climate change deniers,” but we're all prone to Euphemisms from time to time- feel the need to attack one teenage girl with such acrimony.

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    A euphemism may itself devolve into a taboo word, through the linguistic process known as semantic change(specifically pejoration) described by W. V. O. Quine, and more recently dubbed the"euphemism treadmill" by Harvard professor Steven Pinker.

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    The option to work“from another location”- euphemism for working from home- has now spread to the United Nations where it is categorized as“flexible working arrangements”- and described in official circulars either as“staggered working hours”,“compressed work schedule”,“working away from office” or“alternate work place”.

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