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Recent Examples of terminology
What does all that terminology in Florida restaurant inspections mean?
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Staff Reports, Florida Times-Union, 6 Jan. 2026
Which means that their terminology won't disappear anytime soon.
—Mariyam Muhammad, Cincinnati Enquirer, 30 Dec. 2025
This Trumpian newspeak about Germany — to use George Orwell’s term for the distorted terminology of authoritarians — reveals an indifference to (or ignorance of) history that endangers not only Europe but the United States.
—Trudy Rubin, Mercury News, 20 Dec. 2025
The peek behind the scenes, the opportunity to introduce terminology like swing, Captain Wagner’s moment to pipe up about the distinction between a soundtrack and a cast recording — who says TV isn’t educational?
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
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Staff Reports, Florida Times-Union, 6 Jan. 2026
Which means that their terminology won't disappear anytime soon.
—Mariyam Muhammad, Cincinnati Enquirer, 30 Dec. 2025
This Trumpian newspeak about Germany — to use George Orwell’s term for the distorted terminology of authoritarians — reveals an indifference to (or ignorance of) history that endangers not only Europe but the United States.
—Trudy Rubin, Mercury News, 20 Dec. 2025
The peek behind the scenes, the opportunity to introduce terminology like swing, Captain Wagner’s moment to pipe up about the distinction between a soundtrack and a cast recording — who says TV isn’t educational?
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for terminology
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Executives arrive with a vocabulary of risk, resilience, and stakeholder responsibility that can sound consistent year to year.—
Monica Sanders,
Forbes.com,
25 Jan. 2026
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Learn a vocabulary, a manner, a worldview.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Jan. 2026
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The event also featured a video about the three countries and fundraising for Sudan, poetry readings, a Kahoot game about the three dialects and prizes, henna and face painting, Syrian dance, a Sudanese wedding reenactment, a fashion show and ethnic food.—
Janice Neumann,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Jan. 2026
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Domaine des Etangs officially resides in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, though locals still call it Limousin (of the eponymous dialect, and Limousin cattle).—
Lydia Bell,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Jan. 2026
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Each class is a one- hour adventure of hearing and speaking another language.—
Kris Slugg,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Jan. 2026
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Its sequel Dhurandhar 2 is scheduled for theatrical release March 19, 2026, in five languages — Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam — expanding significantly beyond the original's Hindi-only strategy.—
Hannah Abraham,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Pachuco was a term used for Mexican American men in the 1930s and 40s who wore flashy zoot suits, spoke their own slang and formed a small but notable countercultural scene in Los Angeles.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Jan. 2026
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Indiana, to quote Gen Alpha slang, is mid, literally.—
John Tufts,
IndyStar,
13 Jan. 2026
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Don’t be fooled by the replacement of progressive jargon with nationalist rhetoric.—
Veronique De Rugy,
Oc Register,
22 Jan. 2026
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The department head is presenting some exciting updates, but the updates are drowned in data, crowded slides, or jargon that seems too complex to fully understand.—
Rachel Wells,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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There’s this Douglas Adams joke that in no language is there the idiom as pretty as an airport.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Jan. 2026
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As a substitute, the board selected local architect William Pereira, who, never fully at ease with a modernist idiom, hewed to the middlebrow tastes and conservative politics of California’s philanthropic parvenus.—
Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann,
Artforum,
1 Jan. 2026
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“Terminology.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/terminology. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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