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the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field
the promotional team for the new computer used a dialect full of acronyms that the press found difficult to follow
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Recent Examples of dialect
All beaches in Aruba are public, increasing the chance for cross-cultural connections; my kids often joined beach volleyball games with local teenagers, who all speak English in addition to Dutch and Papiamento, Aruba’s dialect.
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Allison Tibaldi, USA Today, 10 Mar. 2026
His Livornese dialect is better than his Italian and his Italian better than his English.
—James Horncastle, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026
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
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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Allison Tibaldi, USA Today, 10 Mar. 2026
His Livornese dialect is better than his Italian and his Italian better than his English.
—James Horncastle, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026
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
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dialect
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There’s no official word from Netflix, but the terminology making it into the code could suggest an imminent launch.—
James Peckham,
PC Magazine,
27 Mar. 2026
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That’s looks-maxxing terminology for becoming really, really hot.—
Will Gottsegen,
The Atlantic,
26 Mar. 2026
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Speech-language pathologists work with people who have disorders involving speech, language and swallowing, sometimes from injuries, medical conditions or developmental delays.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
31 Mar. 2026
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Once each semester, Grit Matthias Phelps, a German language instructor at Cornell University, introduces her students to the raw feeling of typing without online assistance.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
31 Mar. 2026
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The fact that the same software enabled such a range of idiosyncratic styles decisively undermines any claim of a causal relationship between Gehry’s digital tools and his formal vocabulary.—
Julian Rose,
Artforum,
26 Mar. 2026
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Ehrlich’s contributions to that vocabulary proved far more durable than his predictions.—
Brian C. Keegan,
The Conversation,
26 Mar. 2026
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Mogging is internet slang for dominating someone less attractive.—
Ashley Miznazi,
Miami Herald,
27 Mar. 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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“Dialect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dialect. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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