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Line 11: Some fields have their own specific placeholder terminology. For example, "widget"<ref>Not to be confused with [[Widget Series\|our usage of the term]]</ref> in economics, engineering and electronics, or "Blackacre" and "John Doe" or "Jane Doe" in law. Compare with [[Bland-Name Product]], where the variable is based on a Real Life brand name and the reader or viewer is expected to notice the reference~~, and~~; [[The Trope Without a Title]], in which a description (sometimes so vague as to be meaningless) is used instead of a name; and [[Buffy-Speak]], where the speaker is making up what sound like metasyntactic variables on the fly because he can't remember the actual terms. {{examples}}

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