So-Called Cliché Corner
By
Lori Robertson
Lori Robertson (robertson.lori@gmail.com), a former AJR managing editor, is a senior contributing writer for the magazine.
" So-called non-voted ballots are ballots where either no vote was recorded or votes are made for multiple candidates."
Boston Herald
"A boom in home refinancings since 1997 created the so-called predatory-lending market."
Dayton Daily News
"A scan detects calcium deposits, which are the first sign of atherosclerosis--or so-called hardening of the arteries."
Detroit News
"Some of those volunteers would also be given hexamethonium, a so-called ganglionic blocker that would prevent signals from returning to the lungs--and, if the theory was right, stop the airways from reopening."
New York Times
"These are the so-called Vela satellites, built to track possible nuclear explosions."
Philadelphia Inquirer
"Right now, the team's so-called starting pitching rotation is in tatters."
Providence Journal
"The text of the biological weapons protocol, which European nations and other major powers support, is a result of six years of negotiations within a so-called ad hoc group that is holding a new round of talk this week."
Washington Times
"All of [Emeril] Lagasse's so-called face time on TV, alas, hasn't given him the acting chops most critics think he needs to avoid getting smoked in prime time."
Hartford Courant
from more than 980 references in one week in July ###
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