euphemisms
Example Sentences
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When the industry euphemisms pile up, so do my doubts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
In one of the film’s most charged moments, Peck turns Orwell’s warning about political language into a montage of modern euphemisms: “peacekeeping operations,” “collateral damage,” “illegals” — and then, pointedly, “antisemitism 2024.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025
And it could shift the national conversation from euphemisms and proxies to the real question: What do we owe the descendants of those who built this country?
From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2025
Rather than call out the dangerous lunacy in plain view, the Times has chosen to engage in tortured euphemisms.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2024
Our linguistic ancestors parlayed that incomprehension into euphemisms like passed on in which death consists of a journey to a remote location.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
