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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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The popularity of the dialect quiz received significant media attention—much of which revealed anxieties regarding the supremacy of a quiz over conventional news articles.
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Elana Klein, WIRED, 12 July 2024
But some of the material offers simpler pleasures without those dramatic dynamics, especially when Beck moved in on a particular global dialect.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 8 July 2024
The research reveals intriguing new features in sperm whale communication, particularly the matching of tempo between whales, says Luke Rendell, a marine mammal scientist at the University of St Andrews whose work helped identify sperm whale dialects around the world.
—Warren Cornwall, science.org, 5 July 2024
Uncle Remus recounts the stories of Brer Rabbit and his compatriots to a young white child in Harris’ interpretation of Black middle-Georgian dialect.
—Bethanee Bemis, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 June 2024
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Elana Klein, WIRED, 12 July 2024
But some of the material offers simpler pleasures without those dramatic dynamics, especially when Beck moved in on a particular global dialect.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 8 July 2024
The research reveals intriguing new features in sperm whale communication, particularly the matching of tempo between whales, says Luke Rendell, a marine mammal scientist at the University of St Andrews whose work helped identify sperm whale dialects around the world.
—Warren Cornwall, science.org, 5 July 2024
Uncle Remus recounts the stories of Brer Rabbit and his compatriots to a young white child in Harris’ interpretation of Black middle-Georgian dialect.
—Bethanee Bemis, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 June 2024
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“Dialect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dialect. Accessed 8 Sep. 2024.
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