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phrasemaking

  • a word derived from phrasemaker.
    phrasemaker
    noun
    a person who is skilled in coining well-turned phrases; phraseologist.

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Some labeled her a grandstander, but her phrasemaking often helped her get her message across to the public.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2023

Now that’s the kind of sharp phrasemaking that will be more important than ever as we wait to be slaughtered by sound-hunting creatures from beyond time and space.

From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2018

Only Galloway has enough ripe phrasemaking, righteous indignation and old-school showmanship to make anyone even think of charging £7.99 for his performances.

From The Guardian ● May 24, 2013

At first, Jim Davis, chief marketing officer at SAS, viewed Big Data as part of another cycle of industry phrasemaking.

From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2012

Competent learning, general cultivation, absolute probity, accuracy of general view, human sympathy, and technical capacity,--how many things are necessary to the critic, without reckoning grace, delicacy, savoir vivre, and the gift of happy phrasemaking!

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Hamilton Wright Mabie

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