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Yiddish, the mother tongue of Ashkenazi Jews in Europe for nearly a thousand years, is still spoken by about six hundred thousand ultra-Orthodox Jews mostly concentrated in America, Europe, and Israel.—
Adam Kirsch,
The New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2025 -
So to be able to play in my mother tongue would be an amazing experience because there would be no boundaries whatsoever.—
Todd Gilchrist,
Variety,
18 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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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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The semantic layer maps business-level definitions, key performance indicators (KPIs) and organizational corporate jargon to data fields.—
Artyom Keydunov,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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Many profiles contain the same jargon and buzzwords that potential connections see dozens of times daily.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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In British fashion parlance, the signature single flower, attended occasionally by a bit of lace, is called a fascinator.—
Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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The maneuver, in military parlance, is known as a force multiplier.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Mar. 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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Gone were the logoed blazers, pristine sets and cheerful patter, replaced by an actual working newsroom filled with anchors and reporters that became media stars in their own right.—
Robert Channick,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Mar. 2025
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The 24-piece set includes gold rimmed plates with a beautiful floral patten, cups and napkins with the same patter and a light gold cutlery set.—
Christopher Murray,
Fox News,
21 Mar. 2025
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Window frames and doors were painted red in the regional vernacular.—
Ann Abel,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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The big picture: Kennedy's philosophy, built around skepticism of corporations and mainstream science and promoting chronic disease prevention, has its own vernacular.—
Maya Goldman,
Axios,
20 Mar. 2025
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“Acrolect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acrolect. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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