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== Fictional applications == *[[George Orwell]]'s ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'' – The totalitarian state [[Oceania (Nineteen Eighty-Four)|Oceania]] implements [[Newspeak]], a "pared-down version of English in which 'dangerous' words like 'freedom' no longer exist". [[Kathleen Taylor (biologist)|Kathleen Taylor]] suggests in [[Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control|a case study]] that the words that remain as a result of the diminishing of the English language are ideologically loaded, and are "clear examples of Lifton's thought-terminating clichés".<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":4" /> *[[Aldous Huxley]]'s ''[[Brave New World]]'' – The "Utopian" Society uses thought-terminating clichés more conventionally, most notably regarding the drug [[Soma (Brave New World)|soma]] as well as modified versions of real-life platitudes, such as, "A doctor a day keeps the jim-jams away."<ref name=":4" />
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