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the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field
I don't understand a lot of computer jargon
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Recent Examples of jargon
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
Those practices included predatory mortgage lending, junk fees, confusing jargon on financial product descriptions, payday loans, and much more.
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Andrea Riquier,
USA Today,
20 May 2026
Recode Staff,
Recode,
13 June 2018
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Noun
Within the realm of MLLM design, there’s more jargon emerging.
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John Werner,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
Those practices included predatory mortgage lending, junk fees, confusing jargon on financial product descriptions, payday loans, and much more.
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Andrea Riquier,
USA Today,
20 May 2026
Verb
That’s like the same thing that happened in 2008 when everybody was bedazzled by all these Wall Street jargon terms like collateralized debt obligations.
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Recode Staff,
Recode,
13 June 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jargon
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Learning about their industry and its terminology would be a huge task for me.
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Every major technology shift creates terminology confusion.
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As Photay, Shornstein—a master synthesist and producer—flits between atmospheric house, dubby breakbeat workouts, and chirping electro funk, building his songs’ arrangements into strange, angular shapes.
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The birds chirped a little bit louder.
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There is no real vocabulary and no grammar.
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Is retirement in your vocabulary at all?
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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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AIs can communicate with us using our language.
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Mamdani, proud of his socialist values, had developed a language for communicating a collective, interdependent vision of city life through his consistent emphasis on affordability.
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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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“Jargon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jargon. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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