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Noun
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The employee's actions appeared to be intended for amusement, with the chatbot programmed to read the phrases back in an accent.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025 -
Include the bridge phrases that make these reframes land without resistance.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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These systems can interpret regional slang, idioms and context-specific expressions, hence minimizing both over-censorship and under-enforcement.—
Anees Ali Khan,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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Allusions to myths, fables, and riffs on common idioms abound, many of them evocative and quite funny.—
Lora Kelley,
New Yorker,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Collocations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collocations. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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