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as in tongues
the stock of words, pronunciation, and grammar used by a people as their basic means of communication
Great Britain, the United States, Australia, and other countries where English is the dominant language
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as in dialects
the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field
"love" means "nothing" in the language of tennis
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as in dictions
the way in which something is put into words
we're finding the language of the legal documents to be tough going
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Recent Examples of languages
The hotline is available 24/7 in more than 170 languages.
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Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
Markets overflow with mixed currencies; multiple languages echo in the streets.
—Isa Cardona, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
The study found that AI tools routinely misrepresent news content in all languages, territories, and across AI platforms.
—Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
Coming from the Orinoco Basin in South America, groups of agriculturalists settled in villages in the western and eastern parts of the Caribbean, speaking languages derived from the language family known as Arawakan.
—Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
As far as translation goes, AI software has been able to expertly convert basic Spanish to English or German to French (the other two languages currently available in the AirPod translation feature) for many years; Apple hasn’t really attempted an algorithmic leap there.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2025
The industry may have been hesitant about a rising star who operated in two languages, but her fans weren’t.
—Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 16 Oct. 2025
For additional help, the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline has professional crisis counselors available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in over 170 languages.
—Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2025
Transcription questions arise about errors, omissions and mistranslations because police stops take place in chaotic, loud and frequently emotional contexts amid a host of languages.
—Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
Markets overflow with mixed currencies; multiple languages echo in the streets.
—Isa Cardona, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
The study found that AI tools routinely misrepresent news content in all languages, territories, and across AI platforms.
—Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
Coming from the Orinoco Basin in South America, groups of agriculturalists settled in villages in the western and eastern parts of the Caribbean, speaking languages derived from the language family known as Arawakan.
—Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
As far as translation goes, AI software has been able to expertly convert basic Spanish to English or German to French (the other two languages currently available in the AirPod translation feature) for many years; Apple hasn’t really attempted an algorithmic leap there.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2025
The industry may have been hesitant about a rising star who operated in two languages, but her fans weren’t.
—Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 16 Oct. 2025
For additional help, the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline has professional crisis counselors available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in over 170 languages.
—Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2025
Transcription questions arise about errors, omissions and mistranslations because police stops take place in chaotic, loud and frequently emotional contexts amid a host of languages.
—Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for languages
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Many breeds have darker lips and noses, and that pigmentation can also be found in their tongues and gums.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Oct. 2025
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Live little fish on our tongues and swallowing them.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
14 Oct. 2025
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Studies have found regional dialects of birds’ songs and evidence that some birds learn songs from their parents while still in the shell.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
10 Oct. 2025
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Throughout a career spanning more than three decades, Garg sang in dozens of languages and dialects, becoming a powerhouse in the Assamese, Bengali and Hindi-language film and music industries.—
Angela Yang,
NBC news,
21 Sep. 2025
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The first three were post-dictions of inflation; the latter four were predictions that had not yet been observed when they were made.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
23 Sep. 2025
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All the tired vocabularies have been thrown out, replaced by a mad, post-minimalist openness and pluralism.—
Jerry Saltz,
Vulture,
19 Sep. 2025
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Transcripts, grammars, vocabularies, dictionaries, glyph studies, botanical studies, commentaries, articles, editions of codices, correspondence, maps, charts, drawings, photographs, Maya Society materials, genealogies of Maya families, and Mayan glyphs on moveable type.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Belliveau explained that these formulations are high in micronutrients and allow malnourished patients to absorb them easily.—
Mary Kekatos,
ABC News,
24 Oct. 2025
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Although those formulations are used by only a small percentage of the population, medical groups fear the move will erode trust even further and sow additional doubts about the flu vaccines overall.—
Lisa Jarvis,
Mercury News,
18 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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The history of labor struggle, infused with religious idioms, is a source of identity and values evident in everything from union meetings in churches to prayers on picket lines.—
The Conversation,
The Conversation,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Languages.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/languages. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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