as in mother tongue
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Noun
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But he’s got Maye in one ear and Coughlin in the other, speaking the mother tongue of speed-the-plow.—
Paul Solotaroff,
Rolling Stone,
11 May 2025 -
Image The theme is the conflict between mother tongues and other tongues.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
Noun
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But the nature of all idioms is that their meaning cannot be deduced from their components; the phrase kicked the bucket does not put the English speaker in the mind of an actual bucket, just as the word death does not remind him terribly of the letter D.—
Andrea Long Chu,
Vulture,
6 May 2025
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Best known as a savvy drummer deeply versed in a broad swath of pre-World War II idioms like ragtime, Delta blues, and swing, Devine is at home surrounded by the artifacts and ephemera that captured the sounds and spirit of that era.—
Andrew Gilbert,
Mercury News,
1 May 2025
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Many learners struggle with deciding whether to focus on MSA or a regional dialect, which impacts their ability to communicate effectively in real-world scenarios.—
Geoffrey Alphonso,
Forbes.com,
7 May 2025
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Koine Greek—the dialect of the New Testament—was then the lingua franca of the eastern-Mediterranean world, although, of course, familiarity with it ranged from erudite scholarship to learning a few words for the sake of haggling in the marketplace.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
5 May 2025
Noun
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The war that Trump is waging is cultural, based not on complex legal jargon but on feelings.—
Grace Byron,
New Yorker,
29 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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For the first time in Coachella’s 25-year history, organizers added a live performance on the opening Thursday of the festival, known in Coachella fan parlance as Zero Day.—
Dave Brooks,
Billboard,
11 Apr. 2025
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Russia's Programs Moscow's Su-57 jet—or Felon, in NATO parlance—is widely deemed a fifth-generation aircraft, but one that has been largely absent from the Kremlin's war effort in Ukraine.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Mar. 2025
Noun
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But there’s a whole lot of other slang spoken around here.—
Wendy Wisner,
Parents,
12 May 2025
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The name of the new bourbon is Darts, which is a slang term for cigarettes that seems to be more common among Canadians and Australians than Americans.—
Jonah Flicker,
Robb Report,
4 May 2025
Noun
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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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Studio Collins Weir Studio Collins Weir designed this space to build on the warm materialism of the architecture and play to the agrarian vernacular of the Mill Valley, California, project.—
Elizabeth Stamp,
Architectural Digest,
29 Apr. 2025
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Politics are dominating the popular vernacular like never before, and the introduction of the Trump store on Amazon will certainly add to that ongoing conversation.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Acrolect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acrolect. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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