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Since 1994, Ethiopia’s policy has been that students should receive instruction in their mother tongue (or the dominant mother tongue of their area) in grades one through eight and shift to English instruction in ninth grade.—
Laura Clawson,
JSTOR Daily,
20 June 2025 -
The presenters spoke their mother tongue (Farsi and Hindi), which was detected and translated in real-time to English.—
Ryan Whitwam,
ArsTechnica,
22 May 2025
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He had been raised on some of the similar idioms and great nuances of English and Irish folk music.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
16 July 2025
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Even something as silly as that hockey idiom challenge couldn’t dampen my enthusiasm for long.—
Caroline Framke,
Vulture,
6 June 2025
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Pat picked up Spanish and the local dialect of the region.—
Nell Salzman,
Chicago Tribune,
31 July 2025
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Such expressions of moral clarity are rare, though, in an age of confusion and endlessly contested facts that has been harnessed by the Netanyahu government, which speaks a fluent dialect of the MAGA language of politics.—
Ian Crouch,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
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Mayer said reducing churn — industry jargon for customer losses — is the most substantial factor in improving streaming services’ economics, even more so than gaining new subscribers or generating revenue from those customers.—
Ali McCadden,Lillian Rizzo,
CNBC,
18 July 2025
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There’ll be no judgment or jargon here, but real strategies to take control of your finances and build something that can change your family’s future.—
Kimberly Wilson,
Essence,
28 June 2025
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One part of this process, known in Senate parlance as reconciliation, provisions legislation being moved in this manner to increase the federal deficit beyond the next 10-year budget window.—
Andrea Ruth,
The Washington Examiner,
15 Aug. 2025
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In Wall Street parlance, the float refers to the number of shares available to the public.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
13 Aug. 2025
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Algorithmic social media is driving the creation of new slang at a breakneck pace.—
Allison Parshall,
Scientific American,
15 Aug. 2025
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These systems can interpret regional slang, idioms and context-specific expressions, hence minimizing both over-censorship and under-enforcement.—
Anees Ali Khan,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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But there could be some major differences between the two shows, beginning with her set list and stage patter.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Aug. 2025
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In his introductions to each piece, Taylor has a comforting mid-century patter.—
James Grebey,
Vulture,
23 July 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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Interior richness is a part of quiet, part of one’s own interiority creating a vernacular that’s not overtly storytelling but is about the unspeakable, the silence, the quiet that Tina Campt and Fred Moten and others speak about.—
Caitlin Woolsey,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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“Acrolect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acrolect. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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