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Words to not use
Above and beyond
AI-driven
Apples to apples
At the end of the day
Best practice
Better together
Bio break
Blackball
Blacklist
Black mark
Bleeding edge
Blindspot
Britches
Bubble up
But
Cakewalk
Chief
Churn
Circle back
COB (completion/close of business)
Crack the whip
Cutting edge
Data-driven
Debbie downer
Disrupt / disruption
Divide and conquer
Drink the Kool-Aid
Dumb down
Egregious
Empower
EOD (end of day)
Expert
Exponential
Feedback
Fireside chat
Flesh-colored
Friendly reminder
Future-proof
Game changer
Ghetto
Give 100%
Grandfathered in
Guru
Headwind
High level overview
Hop/jump on a call
I think
It is what it is
Just
Kicking the can down the road
Like family
Low hanging fruit
Lynch mob
Manning
Master
Mob
Moving forward
Moving the needle
Negative nelly
Never before
New normal
Next level
Ninja
Now more than ever
Nude
Paradigm
Peanut gallery
Per my last email
Ping
Plain "English"
Pow-wow
Raising the bar
Reinvent
Retarded
Rockstar
Rule of thumb
Skin a cat
Slave
Slave driver
So
Sold down the river
Sorry
Stretch goal
Swirl
Synergy
Teamwork
That
Think different
Think outside the box
Time and time again
Touch base
Transform
Uncertain / uncertainty
Unicorn
Unpaid internship
Unprecedented
Uppity
Ushering
Utilize
Very
We're all in marketing
Whitelist
Wizard
Workforce
Work harder
Words to consider using
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Secondary
Replica
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Questions to consider
What words and phrases are commonly used by me, my team, or my organization?
What are the words and phrases that should be avoided or banned?
Do we have brand guidelines, including voice, tone, and language?
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