A barrage of buzzwords.

USA Today MagazineVol. 125 Nbr. 2620, January 1997

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Overuse of jargon - Column

Many words and phrases are being overused by people in politics, the media and other areas of public life. These buzzwords have been used so often that they have become hackneyed jargon that obscures issues.

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A barrage of buzzwords.

Every profession has its own jargon. For example, surgeons don't speak of making a cut in a patient's side, but of a lateral incision. They make sutures, not stitches, in closing a wound. In medical terms, what the layman knows as a heart attack becomes a myocardial infarctio...

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