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-{{t|Latin}} for “[[among other things]]” — an elegant (if supercilious) way of aerating your prose with words that do no work at all. Rather like having a dream that you’ve been to the gym.
+{{a|plainenglish|}}{{d|Inter alia|ˈɪntər ˈeɪlɪə (plural ''inter alios'')|adv}}“[[Among other things]]”, only in Latin. An elegant if supercilious way of aerating your prose with words that do no work at all. Rather like having a dream that you’ve been to the gym.
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+“I am in the business that, ''inter alia'', of effecting the writing of sentences wracked with needless convolution.”}}
+The need for “inter alia” depends on your fear that, without it, you might be held, legally, to have represented that your business is nothing ''but'' convolution.
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+*[[I never said you couldn’t]]
 *[[without limitation]]
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