Example Sentences

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Original writer and performer on “Saturday Night Live,” famously as angora-clad 12-stepper Stuart Smalley.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2021

Asked whether Josie is “pulling a geographic” — 12-stepper jargon for attempting to escape one’s private demons by changing locales — Eggers launches a spirited, if conditional, defense of the practice.

From Washington Post • Jul. 13, 2016