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From today's New York Times:

...[P]erhaps we have stopped pushing the save-get key for “the first woman to become          .”

Now I've worked in newspapers, and I think most people can figure out, from context if not from the words, that a “save-get key” is a key on the keyboard that lets the user quickly paste in a commonly-used phrase. It's like speed-dial for your word processor. But I wonder if anyone in the writing-editing chain even noticed that it's journalism jargon.

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