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First seen at a night-club table of menacing lowlifes, Ida, whose mother tongue is Brooklynese, suddenly switches to a heavy British accent and dispenses a torrent of highly literary sarcasms.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
4 Mar. 2026 -
In a different study, published in Nature, the scientists reported that native speakers of English, Spanish or Mandarin all showed these high-gamma responses to their mother tongues, but listening to foreign speech didn’t trigger the dips as strongly or consistently.—
Elise Cutts,
Scientific American,
12 Feb. 2026
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This further underscored the symbiotic relationship between Humphreys and smooth jazz, an idiom not held in high regard by the person booking the concerts.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Mar. 2026
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Those books introduced me to a vision of American teenage life and taught me the rhythms and idioms of American English, nuances that would later replace my Britishisms and shape my career as a journalist.—
Faith Karimi,
CNN Money,
17 Feb. 2026
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Most Kurds are Sunni Muslims, but the Kurdish population has diverse religious, cultural, social and political traditions, as well as a variety of dialects of the Kurdish language.—
Lauren Kent,
CNN Money,
5 Mar. 2026
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How could food from India’s 23 states — with multitudinous subregions and over a thousand dialects — ever be distilled into the generic naan, dal, butter chicken, dosa and sambar?—
Kalpana Mohan,
Mercury News,
4 Mar. 2026
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For all its financial jargon and trading-floor drama, Industry has always been a show about desire — who gets to have it, who gets to satisfy it, and who gets sacrificed in the process.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
5 Mar. 2026
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Showing up Doe-eyed optimistic jargon around cancer bothers Sarah.—
Gerald Witt,
AJC.com,
1 Mar. 2026
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In negotiating parlance, that’s the most a buyer is willing to pay, and Paramount hasn’t shared its answer.—
Brian Stelter,
CNN Money,
17 Feb. 2026
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Now the trick will be to get older females to show up as well (in movie parlance.—
Pamela McClintock,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Feb. 2026
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In 1993, Green started compiling 500 years of English slang by sifting through mountains of primary sources.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
19 Feb. 2026
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Blending Milanese slang with French and Arabic, his rhymes should bring a fresh energy to the event.—
Allison DeGrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 Feb. 2026
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Great speeches, and even greater presenter patter for a change.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
2 Mar. 2026
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The pianist and vocal coach Bénédicte Jourdois, NYFOS’s associate artistic director, assisted with the accompaniments and with the stage patter, of which there is always a fair amount.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2026
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To use basketball and hockey vernacular, Babcock and co-counsel Chris Bankler and Stars lead counsel Joshua Sandler and co-counsel Carroll alternated verbal hard fouls, trash talk and checking into the boards.—
Brad Townsend,
Dallas Morning News,
6 Mar. 2026
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His first women’s show last March was a decisive collection that spoke the same language as Van Noten but welcomed Klausner’s own Millennial vernacular—younger, looser, a little sexier.—
José Criales-Unzueta,
Vanity Fair,
4 Mar. 2026
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“Acrolect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acrolect. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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