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  • noun Plural form of buzzword.

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Examples

  • The rationale was to wave you off if fuzzy MBA/technology buzzwords is all you can bring to bear.

    Online Content Bundling, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Its particularly bad with Gmail, which seems to select buzzwords from the text of ones messages and posts ads with the same buzzword on your sidebar.

    Where Every Ad Knows Your Name - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • The lifespan of Hillary Clinton’s campaign “meta-narrative” could be charted entirely in buzzwords and catch-phrases — “inevitability” to “Clinton fatigue” to “Obamamania” to “he can’t win” to “team of rivals.”

    Miscellaneous Maxine 2009

  • Rove knows better, but he is aware that certain buzzwords are red meat to the teapartiers, who don’t know the difference between fascism, communism socialism.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 30, 2010 2010

  • The lifespan of Hillary Clinton’s campaign “meta-narrative” could be charted entirely in buzzwords and catch-phrases — “inevitability” to “Clinton fatigue” to “Obamamania” to “he can’t win” to “team of rivals.”

    Buzzwords and films of 2008 Maxine 2008

  • The lifespan of Hillary Clinton’s campaign “meta-narrative” could be charted entirely in buzzwords and catch-phrases — “inevitability” to “Clinton fatigue” to “Obamamania” to “he can’t win” to “team of rivals.”

    Buzzwords and films of 2008 Maxine 2008

  • The lifespan of Hillary Clinton’s campaign “meta-narrative” could be charted entirely in buzzwords and catch-phrases — “inevitability” to “Clinton fatigue” to “Obamamania” to “he can’t win” to “team of rivals.”

    December 2008 Maxine 2008

  • Hurling buzzwords is also geek meeting ritual, used to establish one’s position and rank.

    stonetable.org » TMA: Too Many Acronyms 2003

  • A few days ago, The New York Times listed a sampling of 2007's newly coined buzzwords -- words "that endured long enough to find a place in the national conversation."

    Joan Blades: Peaceful Revolution: Maternal Profiling: A New York Times Buzzword 2008

  • Keywords also called buzzwords are those words that are specific to the position and the job description.

    EzineArticles 2010

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