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jargon

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verb

as in to chirp
to make a short sharp sound like a small bird the birds who began jargoning to greet the dawn

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Recent Examples of jargon
Noun
The war that Trump is waging is cultural, based not on complex legal jargon but on feelings. Grace Byron, New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2025 The semantic layer maps business-level definitions, key performance indicators (KPIs) and organizational corporate jargon to data fields. Artyom Keydunov, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
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. Recode Staff, Recode, 13 June 2018 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. Recode Staff, Recode, 13 June 2018 See All Example Sentences for jargon
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jargon
Noun
  • Don’t let the cold terminology fool you — pixie dust still abounds, just with a keener sense of connecting every facet of the company.
    Katcy Stephan, Variety, 16 July 2025
  • Avoid industry-specific terminology that may not be familiar to the reader, as well as unnecessary acronyms.
    Andrew Roberts, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
Verb
  • Both featured physical play that left players chirping and crowds energized.
    Colin Cerniglia, Charlotte Observer, 16 June 2025
  • Birds chirped and traffic appeared normal — apart from the bustle at the local fire department in the center of town — as responders continued to manage the remains of the fireworks facility that exploded barely a mile away, just a few days before.
    Jake Goodrick July 4, Sacbee.com, 4 July 2025
Noun
  • There’s almost a template to the Lexington format and a distinctive vocabulary too.
    Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 23 July 2025
  • So, in the case of La Tête d’Or, [chef] Daniel [Boulud] had this ambition to create something that was kind of a grand New York steakhouse but with a French influence, which led to a more refined vocabulary, and that led to wanting to elevate the cooking to be on display.
    Sofia Perez, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
Noun
  • In it, Italian peasants Matteo and Natale discuss this same cosmic occurrence in the rustic Paduan dialect of the time.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 3 July 2025
  • Around the table, his family speak the local dialect of the Veneto region.
    James Horncastle, New York Times, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • An artist who lived beyond the boundaries of language and region.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 14 July 2025
  • Adding classes in Spanish for those who read, write and speak it as their first language is another part of the plan to make schooling at CLC both more affordable and less challenging.
    Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • The use of technology is overdone, the slang is annoying and the characters seem unlikable.
    Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 24 July 2025
  • Crashing out is a slang term used to negatively describe emotional overload or emotional dysregulation that presents as sudden, angry, frustrated, or distressing emotional outbursts or behaviors.
    Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 20 July 2025

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“Jargon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jargon. Accessed 28 Jul. 2025.

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