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Example sentences for: wording
How can you use “wording” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Several studies have examined how presentation, [ 2 3 4 ] wording, [ 5 ] and framing [ 6 7 ] affect physicians' interpretations of numeric data as well as their willingness to initiate treatment [ 8 ] . However, few studies have examined the effect on patients of framing risk data with different metrics, such as relative or absolute risk and the number needed to treat (NNT).
The wording thus has an extended or connotative aspect to it, becoming what Austin called a performative utterance.
If all this is too complicated to follow, let me summarize: you look up word X and get synonyms A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. You look up the synonyms for word A, and you get synonyms X, B, C, D, E, F, and G. Even the definition provided for the sub-listings is identical in wording to that of the word originally sought.
These are examples in which the wording undercuts itself, yet without any apparent sarcasm.
A brief verifying of one's references reveals that the wording here is again misquoted and, furthermore, that the recipient of the advice was almost certainly no longer an undergraduate.