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  • For marketing documents, however, I generally do not use any TM, preferring the old method of comparing with previous translations for the same client when consistency is needed and laying stress on style, inventivity and catchy turns of phrase for the whole text.

    The trouble with translation memory programs « Musings from an overworked translator 2009

  • The reason the concept of PHOSITA is introduced is to assess the inventivity of the technical contribution, which is rendered moot when PHOSITA is elevated to the level of the inventors.

    Erroneous "Skill in the Art" Triggers Obviousness Peter Zura 2007

  • Something Nicholas had said in connection with the watering of engines on his railway had started his inventivity, and he was already halfway towards an improvement.

    On Forsyte 'Change 2004

  • The drummer leads the band throughout the gig with great inventivity.

    This Is Fake DIY 2008

  • Admiring of the tortuous inventivity of the French and Québecois in particular, faced with pressure to gallicise English neologisms: (mél being the only example I can think of offhand.

    French masterclass 2007

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