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Olsen: You’ve expressed some frustration recently with the phrase “representation” — that it’s become kind of a hollow gesture.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
In his view, “no phrase could have been more radical, more momentous.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
But so much of American public discourse, over the last decade or so, has involved refusing to “observe the observable,” in Joan Didion’s famous phrase.
From Salon • Jun. 7, 2026
That was the phrase emblazoned on Mirra Andreeva's jacket as she lifted her first Grand Slam trophy at the French Open.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
That cozy view never prompted the sick, panicky feeling of being unmoored from the earth that the phrase “touch the clouds” had stirred up in her.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
Vocabulary lists containing phrase
PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade7)
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The SAT: Language of the Test, List 4
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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