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Recent Examples of idiolect
In this way, the Delta method captures features that vary according to their authors’ idiolects.
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Karolina Rudnicka, Scientific American, 9 July 2025
Attackers can mimic the distinct idiolect of the target.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 18 Nov. 2023
That’s where idiolect comes into play.
—Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 8 Feb. 2023
Butler appears to have picked up Elvis’s idiolect, Howell says.
—Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 8 Feb. 2023
Sherif’s music exists in the space between autobiographical and his own idiolect.
—Jayson Buford, Rolling Stone, 3 June 2022
And then there’s his inborn ear for every shade of human babble, here a transcendent four-hander, there a screwball travelogue, everywhere argot and idiolect and argument.
—New York Times, 23 Apr. 2020
His writing conveys an extraordinary ear for accent, rhythm, and idiolect.
—Maya Jasanoff, The New Republic, 22 Aug. 2019
Kathleen is relentlessly animated and quick-witted, with thick tangerine hair, steely eyes, and an endearing personal idiolect that suggests both an autodidactic reading in philosophy and economics and the gusty crudity of the merchant marine.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, WIRED, 18 June 2018
Karolina Rudnicka, Scientific American, 9 July 2025
Attackers can mimic the distinct idiolect of the target.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 18 Nov. 2023
That’s where idiolect comes into play.
—Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 8 Feb. 2023
Butler appears to have picked up Elvis’s idiolect, Howell says.
—Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 8 Feb. 2023
Sherif’s music exists in the space between autobiographical and his own idiolect.
—Jayson Buford, Rolling Stone, 3 June 2022
And then there’s his inborn ear for every shade of human babble, here a transcendent four-hander, there a screwball travelogue, everywhere argot and idiolect and argument.
—New York Times, 23 Apr. 2020
His writing conveys an extraordinary ear for accent, rhythm, and idiolect.
—Maya Jasanoff, The New Republic, 22 Aug. 2019
Kathleen is relentlessly animated and quick-witted, with thick tangerine hair, steely eyes, and an endearing personal idiolect that suggests both an autodidactic reading in philosophy and economics and the gusty crudity of the merchant marine.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, WIRED, 18 June 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for idiolect
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Species names and sales terms vary across regions, with sellers often using local dialects, slang, or even misspellings to avoid detection.—
Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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Morris has some predictions, both for the fate of the Nashville accent and the southern dialect zone as a whole.—
Austin Hornbostel,
Nashville Tennessean,
20 Aug. 2025
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He’s been talking about replacing it with a permanent ballroom for a long time, in his usual Dictator Chic idiom.—
Christopher Bonanos,
Curbed,
1 Aug. 2025
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This could be in Elsbeth’s usual light and fizzy idiom or perhaps a brief foray into Scandi-noir.—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
6 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The filles, mostly from larger cities, arrived with their own urban argots.—
Ann Foster,
JSTOR Daily,
9 July 2025
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The basic technology is complicated enough, but the subculture—with its own particular argot and decorum—is what’s truly forbidding.—
Will Gottsegen,
The Atlantic,
10 June 2025
Noun
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Algorithmic social media is driving the creation of new slang at a breakneck pace.—
Allison Parshall,
Scientific American,
15 Aug. 2025
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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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Elliott spits her verses in patois, freeing up space on the track for the drums to get some before Cartel and M.I.A. slide through. 41.—
Steven J. Horowitz,
Vulture,
11 Apr. 2025
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And so there’s West Indian patois and language and music and food.—
Vanessa Franko,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jan. 2025
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Mayer said reducing churn — industry jargon for customer losses — is the most substantial factor in improving streaming services’ economics, even more so than gaining new subscribers or generating revenue from those customers.—
Ali McCadden,Lillian Rizzo,
CNBC,
18 July 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
Noun
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For much of the past 1,000 years, Yiddish was spoken by three quarters of the world’s Jews — a Germanic vernacular, seasoned with Hebrew, Slavic and Romance vocabulary, that bridged polyglot Jewish communities in Central and Eastern Europe and followed them to the far corners of the diaspora.—
Andrew Silow-Carroll,
Sun Sentinel,
9 June 2025
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Interior richness is a part of quiet, part of one’s own interiority creating a vernacular that’s not overtly storytelling but is about the unspeakable, the silence, the quiet that Tina Campt and Fred Moten and others speak about.—
Caitlin Woolsey,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
Noun
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One part of this process, known in Senate parlance as reconciliation, provisions legislation being moved in this manner to increase the federal deficit beyond the next 10-year budget window.—
Andrea Ruth,
The Washington Examiner,
15 Aug. 2025
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In Wall Street parlance, the float refers to the number of shares available to the public.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
13 Aug. 2025
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“Idiolect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/idiolect. Accessed 27 Aug. 2025.
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