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{{def|Murmuration|/məːməːˈreɪʃ(ə)n/|collective n|[[File:Murmuration.jpg|450px|thumb|center|Starts off well but then they start writing.]]}}

1. A group of [[legal eagle]]s (or more particularly, ''[[legal sparrow]]s'')<ref>I mean legal starlings. But I sort of don’t.</ref> from that ever-aspiring [[silver circle law firm]], [[Simmons & Simmons]]. They flit around copying each other in a fashion that you would think would be counterproductive and prone to not really get you anywhere, but which looks impressive from a distance and in fairness does manage to avoid actively hitting things. Though it conjures a vision of unimaginative [[hive mind]] of drone-like workers, blindly following each other about without a plan let alone any grander sense of purpose or strategy— albeit as they do, yielding strangely beautiful, alien, but ultimately meaningless shapes — those ''in'' such a [[murmuration]] — each one we may call a “[[starling]]” — should not complain, seeing as the {{t|metaphor}} was their idea in the first place.<br>