elegant variation

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(journalism, literature) A form of journalese characterized by the overuse of synonyms for fear of repeating a word.

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The editor criticized the columnist for relying on an elegant variation to avoid repeating the politician's name.

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(journalism, literature) A form of journalese characterized by the overuse of synonyms for fear of repeating a word.

A closely related rule for encoding legal texts is the same meaning, same form principle. We saw previously that this rule requires lawyers to avoid elegant variation. Instead, they should consistently use one word if they mean the same thing.

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elegant variations （ plural ）