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Recent Examples of language The clothing used in traditional dance, trova, and couple dancing, and the language of the songs exemplify European influence. Karla Gachet, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025 His 2022 Un Verano Sin Ti is the only Spanish-language album to ever receive a nomination in the category, and a win would be a massive step in the recognition of Latin pop’s ongoing ascension. Alan Light, HollywoodReporter, 1 Oct. 2025 In recent years, some tech firms, including file storage service Dropbox and language-learning app Duolingo, have cited AI as a reason for making layoffs. Ana Nicolaci Da Costa, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025 There are also differences for families who speak other languages. jsonline.com, 1 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for language
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  • Experts at Scholastic say such books help kids gain the vocabulary to describe their feelings, improve self-awareness, and learn strategies for handling negative emotions.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
  • White-collar workers in China have developed their own vocabulary for this malaise.
    Lavender Au, The Dial, 7 Oct. 2025
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  • Rolling back the terminology means reprinting guidance, rewriting websites, and retraining staff—all at a time when health budgets have tightened.
    Dr. Nikki Romanik, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The same applies to some of the terminology, such as the Lake Erie Renewable Energy Resilience Project.
    Craig Rucker, Boston Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
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  • The first three were post-dictions of inflation; the latter four were predictions that had not yet been observed when they were made.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Raised in the Highbridge section of the Bronx not far from where DJ Kool Herc threw the 1973 party revered as rap music’s spiritual baby shower, Cardi bookends those songs with experiments in accentuating and contrasting her distinctly New York diction.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In the rare photos, the teenagers could be seen wearing hats and sunglasses at a restaurant, sticking their tongues out, posing with Keough in New York City, smiling together in a mirror selfie and posing outside in a tropical location.
    Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
  • With a white leather upper, the pair uses the Air Jordan 5’s classic color blocking with a reflective metallic silver tongue and a mixture of Sunset orange and a Jordan staple Fire Red shade.
    Riley Jones, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2025
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  • For Minha, the biggest challenge was mastering the North Korean dialect.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Day-one fans of Taylor Swift know that the pop superstar has come a long way since launching her music career as a country singer — and that evolution is apparent in her dialect, according to speech scientists.
    Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025
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  • The new wording also gives the council wiggle room in deciding the city manager's annual salary, contract term and amount of severance pay.
    Maritza Dominguez, AZCentral.com, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The woman admitted that her wording wasn’t ideal.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 3 Oct. 2025
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  • Meanwhile, analytical software has revolutionized linguistic inquiry, enabling greater understanding of the ways language works—when, how, and why words break out; the specific contexts for expressions and idioms.
    Stefan Fatsis, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Nonnas There's a saying that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, and Joe Scaravella (Vince Vaughn) of 2025's Nonnas is the perfect depiction of the idiom.
    Jacqueline Weiss, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But there’s a whole lot of other slang spoken around here.
    ​Wendy Wisner, Parents, 8 Sep. 2025
  • But first, the deeper history and roots of certain slang terms A number of phrases that are labeled as Gen Z lingo or internet slang today are derived from Black and drag cultures.
    Mia Thurow, jsonline.com, 20 Aug. 2025

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“Language.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/language. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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