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  • noun Common misspelling of communiqués.

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Examples

  • And now we’re noticing a marked increase in the number of communiques from the Palo Alto, Calif. -based social network’s press department that roughly translate into, Look at me, I’m bigger than Twitter.

    Twitter Is Giving Facebook an Inferiority Complex 2009

  • "Open speech, not working out communiques, that is the meaning of the new G7," said German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble.

    Moneycontrol Top Headlines Moneycontrol.com editor@moneycontrol.com 2010

  • "Open speech, not working out communiques, that is the meaning of the new G7," said German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble.

    Moneycontrol Top Headlines 2010

  • Business has issued four "communiques" to U.N. climate conferences over the past three years, calling for a global deal which helps put a price on damaging carbon emissions, and so tilt competitiveness in favor of low-carbon energy.

    Reuters: Top News 2010

  • Officials in some nations, at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), at the UN, at the G-8, at the G-20, in the Council of Europe, at the group for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), in the multi-lateral development banks (like the World Bank) -- all pay lip service to anti-corruption efforts, all put the issue somewhere in the various communiques which issue after various meetings, and all engage in some operational efforts to address the problems.

    Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs - Latest Publications 2010

  • I decided to write him to tell him that rather than become "friends," he could send me his "news" via email and so, he will be in the company of so many others like Newt Gingrich, the Tea Party, The Repugs, The Minutemen, The Birthers, The Birchers, The Israeli hardliners, the Mosque Marauders et.al. who just love to inundate/litter my in-box with their "urgent communiques" forcing me to waste time hitting delete.

    Danny Schechter: How Can You Cover a War From Only One Side? Danny Schechter 2010

  • I decided to write him to tell him that rather than become "friends," he could send me his "news" via email and so, he will be in the company of so many others like Newt Gingrich, the Tea Party, The Repugs, The Minutemen, The Birthers, The Birchers, The Israeli hardliners, the Mosque Marauders et.al. who just love to inundate/litter my in-box with their "urgent communiques" forcing me to waste time hitting delete.

    Danny Schechter: How Can You Cover a War From Only One Side? Danny Schechter 2010

  • Did marketing people all get the same memo commanding them to conjure these carpet-size communiques and litter our inboxes with them?

    Jumbo junk (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • As for folks like you, you believe that if you pass enough regulations or communiques, that nationalism will just disappear.

    Matthew Yglesias » McConnell Warns of American Dystopia — More Equality, Less Poverty, Longer Life Expectancy 2009

  • Instead, the military council has been communicating to the public solely via the communiques.

    Muslim Brotherhood to form party; Obama defends handling of Egyptian upheaval Craig Whitlock 2011

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