1. But these expressions are often only convenient figures of speech, shorthand ways of talking about the average or representative members of a community. 2. Contrast is a rhetorical device, a shorthand way to make a point without bothering with transitions. 3. Even before that, cloning had already become a shorthand way to talk about all that many fear in science. 4. Publishers, however, have no such qualms, freely seeking endorsements because they provide a shorthand way of appealing for attention from booksellers and reviewers. 5. The exclamation point is a shorthand way for statisticians to indicate the factorial system, Gavalas explained. 6. This shorthand way of recording dates is a bequest from computer programmers of years past. 7. To overcome that problem, a number of astronomers have spent the last few years developing a shorthand way to analyze the light coming from distant objects. 8. What both plays have in common is a parade of character types, a shorthand way of including just about every problem gay men face. |
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