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Japanese is the only language that leaves Li’s mouth, but her occasional inner monologues are in her mother tongue, the most crucial example expressing her growing conflict with the very act of writing itself.—
Josh Slater-Williams,
IndieWire,
17 Aug. 2025 -
Many countries offer visas for language learning, which are student visas specifically designed for people interested in studying the mother tongue of a destination.—
Solo Travel,
AFAR Media,
14 Aug. 2025
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Because the construction is a natural and graceful part of our English idiom.—
Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Aug. 2025
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Human reviewers still refine idiom and theology, but the transformation in speed will be similar to the jump from quill to printing press.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Aug. 2025
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It is written in an almost stream-of-consciousness style, rather like someone reluctantly dredging up their memories, with random thoughts interrupting the narrative, long sentences sometimes running to over a page, little punctuation, and peppered with Kobe dialect.—
Ginny Tapley Takemori
September 4,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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The Cajun dialect is a very particular one.—
Zack Sharf,
Variety,
2 Sep. 2025
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Journalists, as a result, will have no trouble recognizing themselves in The Paper, which captures the quirks, jargon, and inside jokes of newsroom life while still delivering plenty of laughs amid the chaos.—
Andy Meek,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The research, published in the International Journal of Business Communication, shows that the overuse of jargon disrupts how employees process information, lowers their confidence and reduces their willingness to seek or share information in the workplace.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Aug. 2025
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The hard problem is explaining how and why beings have conscious, subjective experiences at all (qualia in philosophical parlance).—
Kevin Dickinson,
Big Think,
20 Aug. 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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But first, the deeper history and roots of certain slang terms A number of phrases that are labeled as Gen Z lingo or internet slang today are derived from Black and drag cultures.—
Mia Thurow,
jsonline.com,
20 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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At Lollapalooza, the drummer refused to wear anything but cowboy boots, and Gibby punctuated his onstage patter with blasts from a shotgun.—
Pat Blashill,
Rolling Stone,
28 Aug. 2025
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Such patter surfaced in the recent Target-Ulta partnership end.—
Noah Barsky,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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Earlier still, prior to Israel’s founding and to the time that partition became the vernacular of the day, some Arabs and Jews thought of a single, binational state with equal rights for all, irrespective of religion or ethnicity.—
Hussein Agha,
New Yorker,
22 Aug. 2025
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Psychologists, psychiatrists, and mental health professionals might find this vernacular a bit of a distortion or twist from scientific definitions.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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“Acrolect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acrolect. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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