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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Approximate synonyms, or else circumlocutions, are chosen to fill the gap.
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But whatever circumlocutions are conferred upon him, Simon would appear to be rather more obtrusive than some translators might wish.
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He had an aversion for proper names, employing instead a number of poetic circumlocutions.
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It takes a long time to say a little, because of all those circumlocutions.
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Shakespeare's narration has an excess of artifice and circumlocution .
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The Shakespearean illusions, the pose of madness and threat unraveling in chilling circumlocution .
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The whole thing was so oblique, so fiendish in its circumlocutions, that he did not want to accept it.
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They both knew, of course, that Hal was hearing every word, but they could not help these polite circumlocutions.