"nonspeak" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From non- + speak.",
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          "ref": "2002, Burl Burlingame, Advance Force Pearl Harbor",
          "text": "Most of the action reports are carefully worded statements by ship's officers who have been trained in the art of nonspeak.",
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          "ref": "2005, Armand Mattelart, Advertising International",
          "text": "The only possible originality advertising could claim is in technique, and even then this is doubtful; certainly never in content, which consists entirely in pseudo-speech, Orwellian non-speak.",
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          "ref": "2010, Lou Morissette, Rolicking City Police: Blue Deceit",
          "text": "There was no primary media spokesperson for the Department. Earl had some very basic training in the finer art of “non-speak.” which was the RCP language of choice. As long as your media target was satisfied that they heard something tangible—the delivery boy was off the hook.",
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          "ref": "2013, Eva Desiree van den Berg, Language of the Heart",
          "text": "The tendency for obscure communication or what human rights and refugee advocate Julian Burnside AO QC calls “nonspeak”, most commonly found in complex and jargon-ridden language used by governments and business, leads to the “wilful misuse” of language in public utterances.",
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        "Speech that is intended to satisfy a needed response, yet lacking in any real pertinent information; speech about nothing, empty words; useless talk or babble."
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        "(rare) An aversion to speaking; speechlessness."
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