Words and Phrases AI Ruined (for now)
These are the words and phrases we ask our AI systems to avoid.
- actively (as a filler prefix)
- actually / actual (both forms)
- Actually work
- ADD (as verb)
- Aficionados
- alongside
- Ample
- amplify
- anchored in community
- and we'll talk (1:1)
- Applied AI Report
- Argue
- Astonishing
- At the forefront of
- authentic
- Avoider
- Beacon
- beat
- Bigger + abstract noun stand-in
- bigger language
- bipolar (as adjective for a situation)
- blacklist / whitelist
- Bleeding edge
- Blend
- blind to
- Boasting
- Boiling the ocean
- Boots on the ground
- Bridging the gap
- Bring your X, leave with your Y
- brought (as a summary or filler verb)
- brutal truth
- Buckle
- build (used as filler in place of a precise verb)
- Build what's next
- Build With AI / build with AI
- Captivate
- Capture
- carry / carries / carried
- carrying around
- Catalyzing change
- Charting a new course
- cheesy / cheese
- Cinematic anticipation
- circle the wagons
- circling / circle (as hesitation framing)
- Closure-and-rotation framing
- Compadre
- Comprehensive
- Conquer
- container (as coaching jargon for a cohort)
- Conveying
- Crafting compelling narratives
- crazy
- crippled by
- Cutting edge
- Delegator
- Delve into the intricacies of
- Democratizing access
- Digital age
- Digital ecosystem
- Diminutive-poetic
- Discover
- Dive in
- doing the work
- Driving impact
- Dynamics
- Eat our own dog food
- EF Consulting (the abbreviation)
- Elevate
- Elevate your experience
- Embark
- Embody
- Embrace
- Emerge
- Empowering individuals
- Enhance
- Ensure
- Enthusiast
- Escape
- Excels
- Exciting news!
- Explore
- fall on deaf ears
- Figure
- finished asset in hand
- first-world problems
- fluff
- Forward-thinking
- Foster / Fostering
- founding fathers
- Future-proof
- Game-changing / Game-changer
- garden (as a noun for a content collection)
- Gather to build
- "gathering place for women in human-centered AI" (CREATE and gatherings)
- genuine
- Get it
- ghetto (as adjective)
- girls (for adult women)
- Global Prosperity
- Gone are the days of…
- grandfathered
- grandfathered / grandfathered rate / grandfathered member
- Groundbreaking
- Groups of three (#226)
- guru
- guys / you guys
- gypped / gyp
- happened
- Harness
- Harnessing the power of
- hear me out
- Helping you navigate
- Here's why that matters.
- Highest-leverage
- hit the ground running
- hold / holding / holds (as a verb in hook or outcome language)
- hold / holds
- Holistic approach
- honest / honestly / honesty
- Human-Centric
- Hyper-focused on
- I hope you are doing well / I hope you are well
- I run
- I want you to… / I need you to… / I am here to
- Ignite innovation
- Illuminated
- Imagine
- Imagine a world where…
- Immerse
- Imperative + time-pressure
- Important to consider
- In conclusion
- in plain sight
- In the dynamic world
- In the realm of
- In the XYZ world
- In these unprecedented times
- incredibly
- Inflection point
- Innovative breakthrough solutions
- insane
- Inside your AI
- Inspiring the next generation
- Interactions
- Intricate
- Intriguing
- Introducing the future of…
- Isn't X, it's Y (any variant of this construction)
- It's not just A, it's B
- Italic flourish line above a section title
- Join the movement.
- Join us on this journey
- Keen
- lame
- land (bare verb)
- landing for you
- lands hard
- Landscape
- Leading the charge
- Learn to lead (positions audience as not-yet-there)
- Let that sink in.
- Level up
- Limitless potential
- listen up
- look at it this way
- Lose yourself
- low-class
- Making waves
- man hours
- man up
- manic (as adjective for hectic)
- manpower
- master / slave (in tech)
- Mastering
- matter
- matters
- Maximizing potential
- Meta-CTA cuteness
- Mission-driven
- Mix and match
- Move beyond code
- Move the needle
- Mystery
- name / names (as a rhetorical action verb)
- naming
- Navigating the [landscape] / [complexities of]
- Nestled
- New heights
- Next-gen
- ninja (as job descriptor)
- Notably
- Now more than ever…
- nuts
- OCD (as verb)
- off the reservation
- on your feet
- Once you X, you cannot un-X
- out loud
- Out of the box
- own / owns / owned / ownership
- Paired emotion + access
- Paradigm shift
- Paramount
- Passionate go-getter
- peanut gallery
- Permission/choice softener
- Physique
- Picture this
- Pillars (in public-facing copy)
- Pioneering solutions
- Pivotal
- pivoted / pivot
- powwow
- Print-vs-practice parallel
- producing
- Protector
- Prowess
- Push the envelope
- quiet argument
- Read the Latest (as a CTA)
- real
- Redefining the future
- Registration is open / Registration Is Open (as email or page framing for CREATE)
- Reinventing the wheel
- reinvention / reinvent
- Relax
- Researcher
- Revolutionary
- Revolutionizing the industry
- Rhetorical questions (any question asked for emphasis instead of inquiry)
- Roam
- room
- run, don't walk
- sat / held / hold the space
- sat with / sitting with / sit with
- Save My Seat / Save My Spot (as a CTA)
- Say hello to…
- school
- Seamless integration
- seat (as a word)
- Secret weapon
- See the Program (as a CTA or link label)
- see what I mean
- Shaping the future
- Share this with every woman you know who's building something
- Sharp
- Sharp skills and strong ideas (generic flattery)
- She Adopts AI (retired name)
- Shifting landscape
- show up / shows up / showed up / showing up
- sit down with
- Sitting on
- sitting with
- Sitting with (fake-reflective filler)
- Skeptic
- Soft skills
- spaz / spastic
- spirit animal
- stand up for
- starts here / launch-pad variants
- Stay in the Effect (not a thing)
- Stay With Us / Connect With Us + framing line
- Staying ahead of the curve
- Step back in time
- Step into
- step up
- still sitting with
- still thinking about
- Storybook
- supported / support (as vague coaching filler)
- surface-level
- Synergy
- system (when used generically)
- Take it to the next level
- The best part?
- "the membership that keeps women alongside you all year"
- the most concentrated expression of
- the parts most events forget
- The power of AI
- the whole point
- the word too small / too small for what happens
- the work (as tagline)
- Think outside the box
- This changes everything.
- Thought leader
- Three-beat tagline
- tone-deaf
- Touch base
- Trailblazing
- trailer trash
- "train / training"
- trained / train / training
- trained / training (in metric or outcome copy)
- trainer
- Transform
- tribe
- True potential
- truly
- Trusty sidekick
- turn a blind eye
- Two-beat fragment tagline
- Unleash
- Unlock
- Unlocking new possibilities
- Unveil
- upskilled / upskill / upskilling
- Ushering in an era
- Vibrant
- vision (as goal-setting)
- Vital
- Vulnerable
- walk / walked / walking
- walk / walked / walking (as a metaphor for action or movement)
- Wander
- Want to… / Ready to… subheadings
- watch what happens / dramatic cinematic phrasing
- We will tell you the moment…
- We're on a mission to…
- Weekend bootcamp
- were already belonging / "were already [gerund]" as state
- What if I told you…
- What matters
- Why it matters
- Women building at the intersection
- Women who are building something
- Women who are doing the work
- won't say out loud / mind-reading framing
- worth doing / worth keeping
- X is here to stay.
- "Yah, Let's SLAI"
- You deserve…
- You'll never believe…
- zone of genius
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