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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.
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Dan Goodin,
Ars Technica,
18 Nov. 2023
Butler appears to have picked up Elvis’s idiolect, Howell says.
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Erica Sweeney,
Men's Health,
8 Feb. 2023
Sherif’s music exists in the space between autobiographical and his own idiolect.
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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.
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New York Times,
23 Apr. 2020
His writing conveys an extraordinary ear for accent, rhythm, and idiolect.
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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.
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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
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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Shanghainese scriptwriter Zhang interwove her personal experience into the script, with more than 50% of the dialogue spoken in the Shanghai dialect.
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Ultimately the difficulty of the task was what led him to sign on, which involved working with three different dialect coaches and studying with a Cuban professor named Rafael Rojas.
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The best tended to use puns, literalization — turning an idiom into reality — and pedantic humor to delight and torment children in equal measures.
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That French idiom about having long teeth — les dents longues — can have negative connotations about a person’s ambitious streak.
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His advice was simple, wrapped in the self-improvement argot of our times.
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The filles, mostly from larger cities, arrived with their own urban argots.
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Benoit delights in language as much as her heroine, weaving Regency-era slang throughout and appending a chapter-by-chapter glossary of vulgarities.
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How did the name Go-Go being used as slang for parties come about?
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That’s for sure when people speak patois, a vernacular version of English that’s based on a culture’s intonation.
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Real Miami-Dade officers, often occupying background roles, interacted in character during those stretches as well, sustaining the casual banter and shared patois of a working unit.
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Introductory news conferences often can turn into jargon.
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The art world, with its credentialism, opaque jargon, and tendency to bow to powerful interests, bears a structural resemblance to both politics and academia.
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Paramount’s core belief is that brand extensions — including, in the current vernacular, immersive experiences such as restaurants — can’t be exploitative.
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While some major clients’ taste left a mark on the jeweler’s creative vernacular, what Americans came for was to be on-trend.
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The look that stuck with us from his spring 2026 menswear collection, his final for the house, was this brown field jacket—officially, in brand parlance, a hemp blouson.
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James thrived as a slot cornerback or a nickelback (depending on the parlance), acting as an additional run defender or pass rusher, depending on the situation.
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“Idiolect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/idiolect. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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