phrase

The phrase isn’t as well known as “the economies of scale,” but it should be.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

I hear that phrase at least 13 times by the end of the night.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026

“You are doomed,” DeMaio said, crooning the phrase like a foghorn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

The books have also come under scrutiny for presenting, in Ms. FitzSimons’s phrase, a “sanitized” version of American history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Rather than having student echo you, have them sing the phrase silently, and point to them when it is their turn to sing aloud.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

Mr. Potter’s “Souls Harbor,” which blends gorgeously harmonized phrases, also highlights Mr. Holland’s skills at anchoring a band, whether with skittering figures, conventional “walking” or by digging into a single low tone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

One of the phrases used is 'the first team pitch is only 300 metres away from the academy building in Kirkby, but the journey might take 10 years to get there'.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Coroners are in the business of endings, putting a neat period on decades of damage with phrases like “cardiac arrest.”

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

Other popular phrases unique to the Who-verse: “Good form, Bella Thorne.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

“I had a feeling that they would end messages in a conventional and habitual manner with phrases like ‘reply immediately.’ ‘send money,’ ‘send goods at once.’

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

"We told you: keep your word or pay the price," is how Iran's lead negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf recently phrased it on social media, quoting the agreement.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

He stumbled into his fate by saying demeaning, insulting things that could have been phrased diplomatically.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

It’s also important to know how a poll question is phrased and, in the case of a ballot measure, how it describes the matter voters are being asked to decide.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025

As I phrased it back when I first wrote about the dish, “The cheeses meld together to form the most delicious, frico-laced roasted and blistered fennel imaginable.”

From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2025

I spent several hours on the typing, destroying copy after copy until I had completed one that was immaculate, carefully phrased and most respectful.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

Mr. Prieto’s ballad “Gently Trapped” highlights the transparent beauty and elegant phrasing of his flute playing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Government lawyers argued at a hearing before Cooper on Thursday that the phrasing would not constitute a renaming but rather recognition of Trump's efforts to renovate the building honoring president John F Kennedy.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

Using the descriptive phrasing that was common then among older people, she said, “That is the prettiest little girl I have ever seen.”

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

At the end of the show, a stunning reading of “Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido” revealed the instinctive ease with which she can navigate the sweet, syncopated phrasing of Dominican merengue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

The violin’s absence of frets, which had been a feature of the viola da gamba family and the lute, also allowed its player greater freedom in the tuning and individuality of phrasing.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall