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as in vocabulary
the stock of words, pronunciation, and grammar used by a people as their basic means of communication
Great Britain, the United States, Australia, and other countries where English is the dominant language
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as in terminology
the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field
"love" means "nothing" in the language of tennis
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as in diction
the way in which something is put into words
we're finding the language of the legal documents to be tough going
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Recent Examples of language
The sandals leaned into that barely-there, almost architectural design language that’s been steadily taking over luxury collections, with thin crisscross straps and a distinct loop around the big toe.
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Daisy Maldonado,
InStyle,
22 June 2026
Use foul language, litter, or cut a line, and in a matter of seconds someone’s lovable grandmother would be furiously tearing into the offender until amends were made.
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Literary Hub,
22 June 2026
The center also alleges that the APA has put up roadblocks to allowing an official Jewish affinity group to form, while excusing inflammatory language about Zionism from an Arab, Muslim, Middle Eastern and North African affinity group.
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Andrew Lapin,
Sun Sentinel,
22 June 2026
Spanish-language broadcasts will be hosted on Telemundo and Universo.
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Joy Burton,
NBC news,
22 June 2026
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Daisy Maldonado,
InStyle,
22 June 2026
Use foul language, litter, or cut a line, and in a matter of seconds someone’s lovable grandmother would be furiously tearing into the offender until amends were made.
—
Literary Hub,
22 June 2026
The center also alleges that the APA has put up roadblocks to allowing an official Jewish affinity group to form, while excusing inflammatory language about Zionism from an Arab, Muslim, Middle Eastern and North African affinity group.
—
Andrew Lapin,
Sun Sentinel,
22 June 2026
Spanish-language broadcasts will be hosted on Telemundo and Universo.
—
Joy Burton,
NBC news,
22 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for language
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Operational Infrastructure The market is slowly finding a more honest vocabulary for what AI models actually are.
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Using data collected over years of painstaking observation, Elie discovered 11 core calls that make up the zebra finch vocabulary, such as calls for distress, hunger and saying hello.
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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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This isn’t to suggest that Young needs to pick up where Hunt has left off, in terms of salty diction.
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But Auschwitz had also left its mark on his diction—a sort of verbal tattoo.
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His wife is from Mexico and their son learned the native tongue, T'aiki, in preschool; the family speaks Spanish and English at home.
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Vlašić wagged his tongue and ran toward his teammates with outstretched arms in celebration.
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In our day, before there was the interweb, 30 to 40 interviews a week, promoting stuff back-to-back-to-back in all dialects and languages.
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Like every precocious rising star fluent in the dialect of bluster, Wembanyama talked big, too.
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Attorney General Andrea Campbell needs to clear the air over her role in the income tax ballot question wording that the state Supreme Judicial Court found misleading.
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The group also suggested that the wording of the ordinance could prohibit the city from taking any actions related to the stadium before a vote can take place, including issuing bonds and authorizing building permits.
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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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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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“Language.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/language. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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