Parlance

Narcissism, in psycho-therapeutic parlance, is a term used to indicate a superficial personality type with a hyper-inflated sense of self to compensate for a grievously wounded core. ❋ Judith Acosta (2010)

The Democrats are still true to their heritage of the party of local notables, or in American parlance of Bourbon Democrats and urban political machines. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He's the guy, in American parlance, who cracks heads, makes it happen, says Joel Rubin, deputy director of the National Security Network, a Washington, D.C., foreign policy think tank. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Erica - FYI - Opposition Research in campaign parlance is not research you conduct on your opponent, but rather research you do on yourself in an effort to glean what they will find out about you. ❋ Unknown (2010)

“… The use of the word ‘regime’ in American political parlance is unacceptable, and someone should tell the walrus [Limbaugh] to stop using it.” ❋ Unknown (2010)

Now Tiger #1 is, in American parlance, a key comic. ❋ Steve (2010)

"McCain's Mixed Signals on Foreign Policy" (Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times) In today's parlance, is McCain a "realist" or "neocon"? ❋ Unknown (2008)

The definition of design, as used in ID parlance is not associated with intelligence at all, it is simply saying something that is not describable by simple stochastic processes or regularity are designed: ❋ Unknown (2008)

The definition of design, as used in ID parlance is not associated with intelligence at all, it is simply saying something that is not describable by simple stochastic processes or regularity are designed ❋ Unknown (2008)

The term the legacy of slavery, while in popular parlance, is rarely ever quantified. ❋ Unknown (2008)

P.S. When I think of 40 new taxes on the 60 or more stealth taxes that Labour has already levied all I can say in delight Yiddish parlance is oy vey! ❋ Unknown (2005)

The word "anti-war" in American parlance means somehow who is a pacifist, a peacenik, who is against war qua war. ❋ Unknown (2006)

You don't have to be a grammar nazi like myself, but writing in l33tsp3@k AOL chatroom parlance is going to alienate everyone over the age of 15. ❋ Sunyata__ (2004)

Over hundreds of years, as these successive building levels lifted the villages higher and higher above the surrounding landscape, they eventually formed considerable mounds—or, in archaeological parlance, tells, after the Arabic word for “tall.” ❋ MICHAEL BALTER (2005)

Excusable homicide, in American parlance, is rather like how a PLO sympathizer would view suicide bombings in Palestine, or how a white militia member would view the Oklahoma City bombing. ❋ Unknown (2005)

This isolated “Yellow Hill,” a “horse” in Icelandic parlance, rising about two hundred feet above the valley-sole, is separated by a deep, narrow gorge from the adjacent eastern range. ❋ Unknown (2003)

"Lyric poetry" in our current parlance is a lumpy generalization, loosely describing just about any shortish first-person poem that is neither overtly narrative nor expressly dramatic. ❋ Unknown (1998)

The term day trader, in the current media parlance, is code for "hedge-fund manager without investors or a good college degree." ❋ Unknown (1999)

Therefore, when I had twice awakened Paulina from her unlawful slumber, I had sent her off to the "offices" - in English parlance - with a sharp reproof and warning against a repetition of the offence. ❋ Unknown (1910)

Using [Philosophical] parlance,is how [the professor] [answers] his students. ❋ J-vey (2019)

You can see an example of [smol ting parlance] in this @inversebrah tweet: “iz [oke] your coin wil [punp] to” ❋ Crypto KKG (2021)