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The document aims to provide clarity and accuracy in reporting, addressing contemporary issues and nuanced terminology with precision and sensitivity.
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Nashville Tennessean, 5 Oct. 2025
Rolling back the terminology means reprinting guidance, rewriting websites, and retraining staff—all at a time when health budgets have tightened.
—Dr. Nikki Romanik, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
The same applies to some of the terminology, such as the Lake Erie Renewable Energy Resilience Project.
—Craig Rucker, Boston Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
In Marx’s terminology, this is a form of capital fetishism.
—Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
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Nashville Tennessean, 5 Oct. 2025
Rolling back the terminology means reprinting guidance, rewriting websites, and retraining staff—all at a time when health budgets have tightened.
—Dr. Nikki Romanik, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
The same applies to some of the terminology, such as the Lake Erie Renewable Energy Resilience Project.
—Craig Rucker, Boston Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
In Marx’s terminology, this is a form of capital fetishism.
—Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
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Linguists have argued that its limitless potential is what gives human languages their ability to generate an infinite number of possible sentences out of a finite vocabulary and a finite set of rules.—
Steve Nadis,
Quanta Magazine,
31 Oct. 2025
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Nana was proud of how, in eight months, the boy had gone from not speaking to having a vocabulary closer to developmental guidelines.—
Jayme Fraser,
USA Today,
30 Oct. 2025
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But Simeon Silverio, former publisher of the San Diego Asian Journal, said Bayani reflects only one of many Filipino dialects and would fail to represent the country’s diverse cultural groups, each of which has its own word for hero.—
Walker Armstrong,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Oct. 2025
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Even something as simple as the Chicago dialect and John Gacy’s individual odd, idiosyncratic way of speaking.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Oct. 2025
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In a similar vein, Timnit Gebru, a computer scientist writing during her time working at Google, warned of the dangers of large language models acting as stochastic parrots, which repeat language patterns without understanding, and in doing so replicate the biases embedded in their training data.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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The dust-up stems back to the Spanish singer’s recent appearance on the New York Times’ Popcast, where she was asked about singing in about 13 different languages one her new album Lux and the challenges of communicating with a global audience.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
5 Nov. 2025
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Combining 1980s cumbia and salsa with urban and Andean sounds, lyrics that highlight Ecuadorian slang and identity, and a recognizable deep voice, Machaka stands out for his freshness and authenticity.—
Tere Aguilera,
Billboard,
29 Oct. 2025
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Today on the show, San Francisco slang.—
Darian Woods,
NPR,
27 Oct. 2025
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In an industry known for its conservative branding and complex jargon, some financial companies have found a way to succeed in digital influence.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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But despite all the technical jargon, and despite the breathless chase after the newest innovations, the basic ideas of AI are not that complicated, and not that new, and they can be understood by all of us.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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Though the idiom of abuse has changed, the critics are as hostile as ever, while their targets react only with curious torpor.—
David Wingrave,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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Music unites the interconnecting stories in this saga and expands its passions, with a sumptuous score by composer Stephen Flaherty and lyricist Lynn Ahrens that taps into a wide range of American styles, idioms and amalgams, even as the second act turns more dissonant.—
Frank Rizzo,
Variety,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Terminology.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/terminology. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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