The phrase borrowed from a specialist may lose its limits in everyday use.
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Technical words come with conditions attached, and the conditions do not travel. In its home field a term has a definition, a method behind it, and a set of cases where it does not apply. In ordinary conversation it keeps only its authority. That makes a borrowed phrase sound rigorous while doing very little work, and precision is exactly what gets left behind in the move.
When you reach for a specialist word, try the plain version first and see whether anything is lost. If the plain version sounds weaker, the borrowed one may have been carrying confidence rather than meaning.
Which technical word do you use far outside its real meaning?
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.