phrasing
Origin of phrasing
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In Wisconsin, for example, the Milwaukee County Election Commission explains on its website that this phrasing means all in-person ballots have been reported.
Follow along as battleground states tally presidential votes | John Kennedy | November 5, 2020 | Popular-ScienceLimiting this type of phrasing may also help you improve your chances of receiving a featured snippet.
Ghabboun speaks English fluently, but it’s his second language, and the phrasing of a new question about working from home temporarily tripped him up.
He Made a Minor Mistake Filling Out an Unemployment Form. Then the State Demanded $14,990 From Him. | by Ava Kofman | October 29, 2020 | ProPublicaNo coincidence with that phrasing—The Feeling of Life Itself is his latest book.
Are the Brain’s Electromagnetic Fields the Seat of Consciousness? - Facts So Romantic | Tam Hunt | October 27, 2020 | NautilusThe San Diego County Sheriff’s Department, which employs approximately 4,000 people — sworn personnel and support staff — used slightly different phrasing.
Agencies Are Updating Policies to Comply With New Use-of-Force Standards | Jesse Marx | June 22, 2020 | Voice of San Diego
And look at how mild her phrasing was: The South “has not always been the friendliest place” for black people.
Gaga is especially convincing at slower tempos, and this is where weaknesses in phrasing are typically most exposed.
This is a more diplomatic way of phrasing my first post-election suggestion: "Insult fewer people next time."
“That phrasing was very clumsy and poorly expresses my thoughts,” she explained.
Twitter Campaign Forces Carla Bruni-Sarkozy to Backpedal on Feminism | Tracy McNicoll | December 1, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTMany readers thought our phrasing of "fairness" was a bit vague and made the question hard to answer.
Poll Results: President Should Keep Campaigning on Fairness | David Frum | April 10, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTHe was still phrasing a conventional greeting as she flung him a gay laugh and a look from brown eyes that smiled encouragement.
Astounding Stories, May, 1931 | VariousOne interested in his duplication of characteristic phrasing may refer for comparison ll.
The Fatal Dowry | Philip MassingerThis is good writing too, but it lacks the fancy and the choice of phrasing which would develop later.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete | Albert Bigelow PaineMarjorie had stopped reading to laugh more than once at Jerrys droll phrasing.
Marjorie Dean College Freshman | Pauline LesterThe man's phrasing was rough, but both his admiration and his pity were sincere, and John felt no resentment toward him.
The Hosts of the Air | Joseph A. Altsheler
British Dictionary definitions for phrasing
/ (ˈfreɪzɪŋ) /
the way in which something is expressed, esp in writing; wording
music the division of a melodic line, part, etc, into musical phrases
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