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Is it possible to call someone on this in conversation without being rude? e.g. "What do you mean 'it turns out'?"

William Safire's weekly "On Language" piece in the Sunday New York Times did this type of thing for decades and was required reading in my English classes. Sadly he passed on recently but you should be able to find stuff like this in his books or in his articles in the NYT Archive.