post-kinetic environment
n.— «Crocker’s performance was memorable for another show-stopping war euphemism, when he referred to bombed-out Iraqi towns as “post-kinetic environments.”» —“The Iraq War’s Go-To Cliché” by Weston Kosova Newsweek Sept. 14, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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