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bromide

noun as in platitude

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Bismarck, a 19th century German chancellor, gave us the oft-repeated bromide, and I paraphrase: Laws are like sausages.

The researchers utilized potassium xanthate instead of hydrogen sulfide, owing to its better reactivity in aryne reactions and pentafluorophenyl bromide as an electrophilic brominating reagent.

Borrowing an old bromide, when the stock market sneezes, California’s state government catches pneumonia.

Use of the gas surged after sales of another fumigant called methyl bromide were sharply curtailed because of the harm it caused to the ozone layer.

As media analysts suspected, there are NewsNation viewers who now feel better about Carlson, evidenced by Dee Dee’s feedback and praise from another caller who offered the see-no-color-and-therefore-no-racism bromide of, “There's one race: the human race.”

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