If an item has green -
sounding phrases such as «natural» and «eco-friendly» without providing any further information, it's probably not true.
Not exact matches
She successfully reproduced some
sounds —
such as the
phrases «hello» and «one, two, three» — on her first attempt.
Good examples are your breath, a
sound («Om»), a short prayer, a positive word (
such as «relax» or «peace»), or a
phrase («breathing in calm, breathing out tension»; «I am relaxed»).
Kajitani also uses words and
phrases that
sound similar,
such as exponent and «own it,» to form a rhyme.
Given a colourful brain scan image and exciting -
sounding phrases that are pleasingly simple (
such as «left - brain» or «kinaesthetic learner»), far too many of us jump up and down with pseudoscientific joy.
The George H. W. Bush Administration, which proposed the SO2 allowance trading program and then championed it through an initially resistant Democratic Congress, was (at least in its first two years) «moderate Republican;» and
phrases such as «fiscally responsible environmental protection» and «harnessing market forces to protect the environment» do have the
sound of quintessential moderate Republican issues.
An «eggcorn» is a linguistic error in which the user idiosyncratically substitutes a word or
phrase for a similar
sounding word or
phrase in their dialect,
such as saying «for all intensive purposes» instead of «for all intents and purposes» — the term was coined by linguist Geoffrey Pullum in response to a case linguist Mark Liberman was dealing with, wherein a woman referred to acorns
as «egg corns».
Positive turns of
phrase in Spencer's text,
such as «protect the open web» and «improving the ads experience», may
sound promising on the surface.
Instead of using passive
phrases, he makes each description
sound more remarkable by beginning his sentences with strong action verbs
such as «assisted» and «maintained.»