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As of September 2017, a brand new {{tag|buzzword}} alert: "[[parable]]".  
{{a|buzz|}}As of September 2017, what we believe to be a brand new coinage: [[parable]].  


Context: "are you framing this<ref>For example successfully executed pledge structure, for example,</ref> as a parable to draw from for this new transaction?"
'''Context''': “are you framing this<ref>For example successfully executed pledge structure, for example,</ref> as a ''[[parable]]'' to draw from for this new transaction?


Meaning: parallel, analogy, comparison.
'''Meaning''': parallel, analogy, comparison.


Bonus point for being [[category:Religious buzzwords|biblical]]. But also for sheer degree of difficulty. This takes you right to the knife edge of mockery: You must to deliver with whole-hearted conviction, certitude and a self-confidence which is beyond most non-Americans, lest your conversational partner collapses in a paroxysm of laughter at you.
Bonus point for being biblical. But also for sheer degree of difficulty. This takes you right to the knife edge of mockery: you must deliver it with whole-hearted conviction, certitude and a self-confidence which is beyond most non-Americans, lest your conversational partner collapses in laughter.


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{{ninevirgins}}
[[category:Religious buzzwords|Religious buzzwords]]
 
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*[[Sing from the same hymn sheet]]
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