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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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He became a phenomenal critical and commercial success in Hollywood, not least for his talent for indelible cinematic phrasemaking.

From Washington Post Nov. 16, 2018

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

The phrasemaking, the ridiculous overthinking, the absence of cliche, the hypnotic intensity – this is gripping stuff.

From The Guardian May 20, 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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