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Standard radio weather reports euphemize what would be considered depressing conditions elsewhere.

You could limit your awareness of it and euphemize it past recognition.

Here is where the urge to euphemize begins.

In overwhelming numbers, Palestinians euphemize terror attacks, calling them "resistance operations."

As in most descriptions of horrific events, new phrases are used to bureaucratize or euphemize them.

To call a restroom a lounge is to euphemize euphemism, to touch up the painting of the lily.

Some writers euphemize, saying the publication's "files" need "updating."

"Why euphemize?

"You could euphemize anything."

The Giants players consider this a positive; they euphemize "old" as "experienced" the way real estate agents do "small" as "charming."

How did CBS euphemize?

I don't understand the need euphemize it by calling it a "repurposed stress-testing tool".

Well beyond the F-word we all grew up forbidden to utter, every letter of the alphabet now seems up for grabs to euphemize something unspeakable.

The president identified the enemy (and did not euphemize it, as Nixon's writers did, as "the adversary") a half-dozen times in this speech.

"She's lonely," I euphemize.

"Don't euphemize, Cassandra, he isn't 'gone,' he's dead."

He never waters down a phrase, nor does he euphemize, but is able to recreate in words the substantiality of the world and the speech of the rustics he portrays.

Their eagerness to euphemize underscores the boldness of their experiment: asking New York diners to consider elevators, escalators and bright indoor lighting appropriate visual preludes to extremely expensive dinners.

One word in particular - which I will euphemize as "handkerchief" but whose referent wouldn't get past the elevator operator of a family publication - is used about as often as most people use "the."

"He's taking the heat for all of them, being tough," asserted one ranking Government politician, angrily contending that many overseas critics might accept the tough crowd control measures but for Mr. Rabin's failure to euphemize more.

He clearly enjoys the impromptu, on-camera conversations with McDonald's customers he meets in the course of his 30-day excursion into bad nutrition, and he also likes needling the flacks and bureaucrats whose job is to spin, euphemize and lie.

You cannot be a participant or even an active observer of the 1996 campaigns without taking a stand on a central issue: what liberals euphemize as "affirmative action" to achieve equal opportunity and what conservatives dysphemize as "reverse discrimination" that undermines it.

When we learn, for example, that he was a serial philanderer who, among other things, had his secretaries pleasure him on their knees under his desk at work, Cooper can do little more than euphemize in his father's defense: "Dad was drawn to womankind, and also to a game of brinksmanship.

Weapons engineers have tried to euphemize and deromanticize the terminology: death rays are called "beam weaponry," and the U.S. antimissile defense system is SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative), despite the public acceptance of the catchier Star Wars (from the 1977 SF film).

I heard a cringeworthy one the other day, which I will have to euphemise to spare blushes.

(Because this is a family paper, I will have to euphemise what it was she wrote exactly, but let's just say it was a blunt, three-word invitation to perform a certain act.)