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Recent Examples of terminology
The initiative’s website also features a World Cup section, outlining proper soccer terminology, tips for getting around the Northland and weekly watch parties hosted or promoted by Go North KC.
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Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 11 June 2026
Voibe uses OpenAI’s latest Whisper model to transcribe speech into text up to three times faster than typing while maintaining strong accuracy with natural speech, accents, and technical terminology.
—Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 6 June 2026
Tiny stuff, that no one except insiders would notice—shuttle cockpit switch positions, authentic uniform patches, terminology.
—Eric Berger & Lee Hutchinson, ArsTechnica, 31 May 2026
Aaron doesn't have to spend a lot of time in OTA’s understanding the terminology, figuring out the reads.
—Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 30 May 2026
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Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 11 June 2026
Voibe uses OpenAI’s latest Whisper model to transcribe speech into text up to three times faster than typing while maintaining strong accuracy with natural speech, accents, and technical terminology.
—Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 6 June 2026
Tiny stuff, that no one except insiders would notice—shuttle cockpit switch positions, authentic uniform patches, terminology.
—Eric Berger & Lee Hutchinson, ArsTechnica, 31 May 2026
Aaron doesn't have to spend a lot of time in OTA’s understanding the terminology, figuring out the reads.
—Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 30 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for terminology
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There is no real vocabulary and no grammar.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
20 June 2026
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Is retirement in your vocabulary at all?—
Brande Victorian,
HollywoodReporter,
18 June 2026
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Shanghainese scriptwriter Zhang interwove her personal experience into the script, with more than 50% of the dialogue spoken in the Shanghai dialect.—
Jenny S. Li,
Variety,
12 June 2026
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Ultimately the difficulty of the task was what led him to sign on, which involved working with three different dialect coaches and studying with a Cuban professor named Rafael Rojas.—
Leigh Nordstrom,
Footwear News,
10 June 2026
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AIs can communicate with us using our language.—
Rob Toews,
Forbes.com,
22 June 2026
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Mamdani, proud of his socialist values, had developed a language for communicating a collective, interdependent vision of city life through his consistent emphasis on affordability.—
Hua Hsu,
New Yorker,
22 June 2026
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Benoit delights in language as much as her heroine, weaving Regency-era slang throughout and appending a chapter-by-chapter glossary of vulgarities.—
Angelina Mazza,
Vulture,
19 June 2026
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How did the name Go-Go being used as slang for parties come about?—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
11 May 2026
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Introductory news conferences often can turn into jargon.—
Tony Jones,
New York Times,
10 June 2026
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The art world, with its credentialism, opaque jargon, and tendency to bow to powerful interests, bears a structural resemblance to both politics and academia.—
Katy Siegel,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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The Suez Canal incident of March 2021 revealed the same pattern in a different idiom.—
Dr. Aditya Vikram Kashyap,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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Probably because at the time many of the time signatures and chordal progressions that Miles used were over the head of a young guitar player still functioning in the blues and folk idioms.—
Steve Baltin,
Los Angeles Times,
25 May 2026
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“Terminology.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/terminology. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.
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