We're talking about the rhetorical use of rank numbers.

Nevertheless, native Tupi sentences tend to be quite short, as the Indians were not used to complex rhetorical or literary uses.

Many examples of the rhetorical use of nirukta occur in Bhaskararaya's commentaries.

"You want to reduce something to the absurd, which is basically rhetorical use of an image: Why can't we have marriages between people and pets?"

This view was the product of the rhetorical use of anthropology masquerading as history, and is in fact wrong.

Although there are franchises that use the name, its rhetorical use is often to describe a small, local business contrasted against large businesses or franchises.

Their titles invoke the Situationists' rhetorical use of long and rhapsodic titles.

Arguments and explanations largely resemble each other in rhetorical use.

It was a rhetorical use of the efficient-markets hypothesis to justify policies.

Medieval thinking accepted allegory as having a reality underlying any rhetorical or fictional uses.