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phrasemaker en · NOUN

Etymology

From phrase + maker.

Meanings

1. A crafter of phrases; one who pens bombast or rhetoric.
   • As the entrepreneur Peter Thiel — whose politics I loathe, but who’s a good phrasemaker — put it, it was an era in which we wanted flying cars but got 140 characters instead. 2021 January 1, Paul Krugman, “Things Will Get Better. Seriously.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
   • But even as you read this, some sharp political phrasemaker is working on a paragraph that begins “Not in a hundred days, not in a hundred hours, but in a hundred New York minutes . 2007 January 28, William Safire, “100 Hours”, in New York Times:

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