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Thursday, March 13, 2014

de facto

13 March 2014

Polsat News 11:04:50 PM CET
po obu stronach de facto
on both sides de facto

Polsat News 11:06:20 PM CET
de facto ("jak to wszyscy już de facto...")
de facto ("as everyone already de facto...")

Both expressions were used by the same person in a phone conversation with the news woman in the studio. Neither sounds natural.

gigantic

12 March 2014

Polsat News 12:48:50 PM CET
rolnicy ponoszą gigantyczne straty
farmers are suffering gigantic losses

TVN 7:15 PM CET
gigantyczny przetarg
gigantic tender

Neither of the two uses above sound natural.

de facto

8 March 2014

TVP Info 11:02 PM CET
de facto

de facto

7 March 2014

either TVP Info or Polsat News, 11:41 AM CET
de facto, de iure

BBC 3:02 PM CET
Crimea is de facto in Russian hands

BBC 4:36 PM CET
in broad daylight

BBC 4:36 PM CET
the apparatus of the state

analytical critical

6 March 2014

Polsat News 8:43 PM CET
analityczne, krytyczne spojrzenie
analytical, critical view


de facto

5 March 2014

TVP Info 6:11 PM CET
de facto (Palikot speaking in Sejm, the Polish parliament)

de facto

3 March 2014

CNN live from Simferopol, 6:05 PM CET
de iure [...] de facto (Diana Magnay)

I do not necessarily mean to say that this de facto was not accidental. I am simply noting its occurrence.

mantra de facto

2 March 2014

TVP Info 9:20 PM CET
powtarza jak mantrę
repeats like a mantra

Polsat News 10:13 PM CET
zajęcie de facto części Czechosłowacji (cytat z wcześniejszej audycji)
seizure of a de facto part of Czechoslovakia (a quote from an earlier program)

The second expression, about seizing a de facto part of Czechoslovakia is quite revealing.