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Noun
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The ones who needed to leave their mother tongue in order to find their true voice.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025 -
While many nations have codified their mother tongue—France with French, Japan with Japanese, or Mexico with Spanish—America has always relied on practice and practicality rather than statute.—
Doug Melville,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Though the idiom of abuse has changed, the critics are as hostile as ever, while their targets react only with curious torpor.—
David Wingrave,
Harpers Magazine,
24 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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Many rank-and-file enlistees were also recent immigrants, and patriot regiments hummed with a cacophony of different tongues, accents, and dialects throughout the war.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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To embody the Like a Rolling Stone singer, the actor trained extensively, including five years of preparation, to learn to sing as well as play guitar and harmonica, and to work with dialect and movement coaches to make his performance feel authentic.—
Lexi Carson,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Nov. 2025
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In an industry known for its conservative branding and complex jargon, some financial companies have found a way to succeed in digital influence.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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But despite all the technical jargon, and despite the breathless chase after the newest innovations, the basic ideas of AI are not that complicated, and not that new, and they can be understood by all of us.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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Their online parlance is punctuated by empty enthusiasms, vicious aspersions, and obvious hypocrisies that rarely matter.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
30 Oct. 2025
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Losers, to use the parlance of Burgum’s boss, are parks like Knife River Indian Villages, a national historic site in the secretary’s home state of North Dakota.—
Gloria Liu,
Outside Online,
22 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Combining 1980s cumbia and salsa with urban and Andean sounds, lyrics that highlight Ecuadorian slang and identity, and a recognizable deep voice, Machaka stands out for his freshness and authenticity.—
Tere Aguilera,
Billboard,
29 Oct. 2025
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Today on the show, San Francisco slang.—
Darian Woods,
NPR,
27 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The rubber outsole features a herringbone patter that offer grip and durability for all exercises in the gym and on the competition floor.—
Vicki M. Young,
Footwear News,
25 Sep. 2025
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Elvis star Austin Butler took forever to lose Presley’s vocal patter and mannerisms.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
5 Sep. 2025
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This is an innocent guy who’s getting completely screwed, to use some legal vernacular, in terms of his career.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
29 Oct. 2025
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His own work seethed with the gritty vernacular of the street, evoking the Sturm und Drang of the Midwestern metropolis.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Acrolect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acrolect. Accessed 28 Nov. 2025.
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