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circumlocution
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circumlocution
[-lōko̅o̅′shən]
the subconscious or learned use of pantomime, nonverbal communication, or word substitution by a patient because a word is difficult to retrieve or has been forgotten. See also anomia.


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The circumlocutory reasoning that Israel must control all borders because there is no effective Palestinian Authority and there is no effective Palestinian Authority because Israel controls the borders is ready for change.
The Tangled Course to Middle East Peace by The Palestine Chronicle (Mountlake Terrace, WA)
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Improve Your English: 315 (Education) by Yemen Times (Sana'a, Yemen)
The circumlocutory component of promotion your hotel web site on-line is to search and use channels other than your website and is almost certainly already familiar to most hotel owners.
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