euphemistically
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Unsurprisingly, both Larry and David Ellison are big fans of artificial intelligence, seeing it as a way to streamline their surveillance operations, and for what David Ellison euphemistically calls “cost efficiencies and synergies.”
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
Employers and government officials euphemistically refer to it as "balancing the workforce".
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026
Quraishi said they “screwed up,” and Rosenblum had to euphemistically admit to a “combination of errors.”
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026
Both sides keep running into an intrinsic limit: Everything expires after exactly 29 minutes, exploding into digital ash in a process euphemistically called de-resolution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
Edgemont, where the properties were located, was a tumbledown, racially mixed neighborhood, once a mill village, known euphemistically in the mid-1960s as “transitional.”
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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