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Republicans, who have come up with the mid-term locution of "Pledge to America" to appropriate a populist tone, have meanwhile, called for an end of the "government takeover" of Fannie and Freddie and a "shrinking of their portfolios."

Tom Silva: Why Should We Care About Housing? Tom Silva 2010

But we call a locution ˜proper™ when we use it according to the signification properly and principally given to it, and we call a locution ˜improper™ when we use it otherwise, although we legitimately can use it otherwise.

John Buridan Zupko, Jack 2006

The preceding locution is established Mazzinian; the following clearly mine.

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

Republicans, who have come up with the mid-term locution of "Pledge to America" to appropriate a populist tone, have meanwhile, called for an end of the "government takeover" of Fannie and Freddie and a "shrinking of their portfolios."

Tom Silva: Why Should We Care About Housing? Tom Silva 2010

If it is true that “woof ticket” did not emerge into the mainstream print media until the 1980s and 1990s sources you cited, I would consider it a fascinating example of a short-lived slang locution entering written usage decades after it had achieved obsolescence in its original oral context.

The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

If it is true that “woof ticket” did not emerge into the mainstream print media until the 1980s and 1990s sources you cited, I would consider it a fascinating example of a short-lived slang locution entering written usage decades after it had achieved obsolescence in its original oral context.

The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

When terms which signify mixed perfections are predicated of God, the analogy becomes so faint that the locution is a mere metaphor.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

Figures like Gracie Allen on Burns and Allen, as well as Jane Ace, known as "radio's mistress of misinformation" on The Easy Aces, simply turned that kind of locution into a routine in the 1930s.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 3 1993

From Rush Limbaugh to Kenneth Blackwell, conservatives are openly voicing their hope that the government will fail to address the downturn (which led Steve Benen to wonder, but to his "locution" and "rhetoric."

Night Light 2009

Credit is believed to be an exceptional example of this phenomenon, a rare instance of an ancient locution in Indo-European: *kerd- (“heart”) + *dhē- (“put”), meaning something like “to set the heart,” and thus “to place trust (in).”

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010