newspeak

Example Sentences

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Some terms they list are bureaucratic newspeak, some are leftist jargon, some have to do with Black culture, and others—like the Costner thing—seem simply to reflect cultural phenomena the particular writer happened to dislike.

From Slate • Jan. 5, 2025

“Food processor” sounds like newspeak concocted by a sinister culinary regime to reassure the international community.

From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2022

From Orwell’s evocation of the totalitarian superstate of Oceania, new words entered the language: doublethink, thoughtcrime, newspeak and Big Brother.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 3, 2019

The problem in deciding what Orwell would write about in 2013 is that Orwell the man was incessantly, in 21st century newspeak, off-message.

From The Guardian • Jan. 24, 2013

A topsy-turvy continent adrift among the gales of newspeak, under the gaze of a million grey bureaucrats passing for big brothers.

From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Vaknin, Samuel