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Recent Examples of terminology
In the past two decades, wildfires have been doing things not even computer models can predict, environmental events that have scientists racking their brains for appropriately dystopian terminology: firenadoes, firestorms, gigafires, megafires.
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Jordan Thomas
may 28, Literary Hub, 28 May 2025
District 3 Board Member Ann Maine, while in support of the assessment’s goal, questioned if different terminology could be used for the same result to avoid undue attention from the national level.
—Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2025
After all, ocean issues can involve sophisticated terminology that may make newcomers hesitant to follow along.
—Simi Thambi, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
Musk has criticized the bill before, but using tamer terminology.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 3 June 2025
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Jordan Thomas
may 28, Literary Hub, 28 May 2025
District 3 Board Member Ann Maine, while in support of the assessment’s goal, questioned if different terminology could be used for the same result to avoid undue attention from the national level.
—Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2025
After all, ocean issues can involve sophisticated terminology that may make newcomers hesitant to follow along.
—Simi Thambi, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
Musk has criticized the bill before, but using tamer terminology.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 3 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for terminology
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According to the California Library Association, summer reading programs help children and teens retain and enhance their reading skills over the summer and benefit adults by stimulating the brain, increasing vocabulary and sparking imagination.—
Anne Gelhaus,
Mercury News,
16 June 2025
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For much of the past 1,000 years, Yiddish was spoken by three quarters of the world’s Jews — a Germanic vernacular, seasoned with Hebrew, Slavic and Romance vocabulary, that bridged polyglot Jewish communities in Central and Eastern Europe and followed them to the far corners of the diaspora.—
Andrew Silow-Carroll,
Sun Sentinel,
9 June 2025
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Some stems from that, and then some stems from being around Pacific Islanders all day and other Samoans and Hawaiians and different dialects and different slang.—
Rebecca Jennings,
Vulture,
11 June 2025
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And last summer, Ferrari executives reportedly received WhatsApp voice messages mimicking their CEO’s voice, down to the regional dialect.—
Anisha Sircar,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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There were also issues among people who speak a language other than English.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
20 June 2025
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Because perhaps heartbreak is not only a curse, but also a language.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
20 June 2025
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Twain dared to buck the expectations of critics by using the colloquial dialect and slang of those with little education.—
Kyra Davis Lurie
June 11,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2025
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Some stems from that, and then some stems from being around Pacific Islanders all day and other Samoans and Hawaiians and different dialects and different slang.—
Rebecca Jennings,
Vulture,
11 June 2025
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Different vendors use different jargon for basically the same (or a very similar) solution.—
Tate Olinghouse,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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The rebrand became an immediate laughingstock, described by critics as out-of-touch corporate jargon.—
Roger Dooley,
Forbes.com,
14 May 2025
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Unleashing Wood has ushered in an exciting new phase for a widely influential band that has defined a state-of-the-art jazz idiom deeply engaged with other genres.—
Andrew Gilbert,
Mercury News,
23 May 2025
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Scientists analyzed recordings of three groups of chimpanzees living in the Ivory Coast and found that chimps can combine their hoots, grunts and calls in a similar way to how humans use idioms or change the order of words to build new phrases.—
Evan Bush,
NBC news,
11 May 2025
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“Terminology.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/terminology. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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