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as in terminology
the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field
scientific vocabulary
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as in language
the stock of words, pronunciation, and grammar used by a people as their basic means of communication
children learn enough of the common vocabulary to make themselves understood by around the age of two
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Reading also entails background knowledge, comprehension and vocabulary.
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Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
This includes practical life skills, including personal care and courtesy; sensorial development to help the child make judgments based on size, shape, color, temperature, smell, and sound; and the advancement of language and vocabulary from phonics to more complex grammar.
—Jose Bolanos, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
Ann was ultimately presented with hundreds of sentences, all based on a limited vocabulary of 1,024 words.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 2 Apr. 2025
Mastering language—with its nuanced vocabulary and conceptual frameworks—amplifies your ability to inspire teams and drive innovation.
—Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
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Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
This includes practical life skills, including personal care and courtesy; sensorial development to help the child make judgments based on size, shape, color, temperature, smell, and sound; and the advancement of language and vocabulary from phonics to more complex grammar.
—Jose Bolanos, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
Ann was ultimately presented with hundreds of sentences, all based on a limited vocabulary of 1,024 words.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 2 Apr. 2025
Mastering language—with its nuanced vocabulary and conceptual frameworks—amplifies your ability to inspire teams and drive innovation.
—Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
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Parental control settings on iPhones and Android phones are notoriously complicated, with options scattered across different menus and unclear technical terminology.—
Parmy Olson,
Mercury News,
19 Apr. 2025
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This means developing models that can interpret industry-specific terminology, understand company protocols, and engage in meaningful dialogue with employees across different departments.—
Quora,
Forbes.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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Apart from any constitutional questions, there is also the problem that confessional language issued by the secretary of state in his official capacity distorts the message of Easter.—
Chloe Breyer,
New York Daily News,
21 Apr. 2025
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Subtitles are easy to add to film, but, for the most part, they were used only when actors and audiences spoke different languages.—
David Owen,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
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Coogler wanted to ensure that neither of those characters would turn into caricatures, and had Jordan work with a dialect coach to aid in that and even asked twin filmmakers Logan and Noah Miller to consult on the film, helping him on the screenplay too.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
16 Apr. 2025
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Currently, African languages and dialects are underrepresented due to a lack of data and there are often biases in training data, such as facial recognition systems that struggle with darker skin tones.—
Nell Lewis,
CNN Money,
3 Apr. 2025
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This pair weighs just over one pound and includes heel and tongue loops to make slipping them on and off a breeze.—
Merrell Readman,
Travel + Leisure,
24 Apr. 2025
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So the monkey was sticking his tongue in the trainer’s mouth and then coming over and doing it to me.—
Mikey O'Connell,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Apr. 2025
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Their motto is gambler’s slang for risking it all in one effort to win big.—
Kurt Snibbe,
Oc Register,
3 Apr. 2025
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Robert De Niro’s daughter poked fun at the actor for struggling to keep up with teen slang.—
Stephanie Giang-Paunon,
FOXNews.com,
25 Mar. 2025
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Ultimately, Andrews and his actors find Chekhov by abandoning the paraphernalia of the writer’s universe and groping, in their own idiom, across a perilously empty stage, toward one another.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
4 Apr. 2025
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Which is fitting for a composer who, even when developing a homegrown idiom of his own, was criticized for sounding too European.—
Joshua Barone,
New York Times,
17 Feb. 2025
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“Vocabulary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vocabulary. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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