phrase

Example Sentences

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Or maybe it just sounded like a cool phrase, and no one involved grasped the weirdness of the metaphor.

From Salon

The phrase was based off his uncle, he said in a 2008 interview, and he had also said it in the same intonation in other films before debuting on HBO's The Wire.

From BBC

At charity events, auctioneers insert interrogative phrases, such as “would you give?,” an appeal to the bidders’ generosity.

From The Wall Street Journal

During the initial training phase, developers feed the model massive amounts of data up to a specific cutoff date, which the model breaks into “tokens,” or pieces of words or phrases.

From MarketWatch

"A simple phrase I'd use is short Tests are bad for business. I can't be much more blunt than that," he said.

From Barron's