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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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Overall, the impression the car imparts is decidedly futuristic, and the design idiom certainly aligns with other recent luxurious EV concepts, such as those unveiled by Jaguar, Mercedes, and Genesis, as well as production vehicles such as the Tesla Cybertruck.—
Brett Berk,
Robb Report,
8 July 2025
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By the time these terms get into the mainstream, new ones have already appeared, although some (such as to dig or cool) remain staples of the idiom despite wide non-Negro use.—
Benjamin Hale
June 23,
Literary Hub,
23 June 2025
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In it, Italian peasants Matteo and Natale discuss this same cosmic occurrence in the rustic Paduan dialect of the time.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
3 July 2025
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Around the table, his family speak the local dialect of the Veneto region.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
30 June 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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Different vendors use different jargon for basically the same (or a very similar) solution.—
Tate Olinghouse,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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Comparing prices per unit In supermarket parlance, unit price is what a product costs per ounce or pound or liter.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
10 July 2025
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Or in the old school negotiating parlance: leverage.—
Matt Hayes,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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And June 2025 brought a fresh batch of slang that's either charming, confusing, or mildly alarming.—
Annabelle Canela,
Parents,
8 July 2025
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Words change meaning over time, slang infiltrates the mainstream, and sometimes, a little creative license is acceptable.—
Jerry Weissman,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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That first crack of thunder, the patter of rain on rooftops and the brief but glorious cooldown.—
Hayleigh Evans,
AZCentral.com,
4 July 2025
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Lucas was asked about Yoda’s particular patter, which often found the character doing away with typical sentence structure and essentially delivering his heady insights and mighty koans backwards.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
28 Apr. 2025
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The verdict was a repudiation of the law’s distance from the vernacular of life and real language, of the proceduralism of the legal system.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
3 July 2025
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And Democrats’ use of four-letter vernacular says a lot about the party.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Acrolect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acrolect. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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