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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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Thanks to its roots as a hot-ticket Edinburgh show, the series has long been likened to Baby Reindeer, the Netflix limited series starring Richard Gadd that spent eight weeks in Netflix’s global top 10 English-language chart and became one of the streamer’s biggest original series hits.
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Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2025
The game will feature additional language options that include Spanish, French and Portuguese.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
The productions will complement — not replace — the English language recordings by Dale and Stephen, which were first released in 1999.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
As of 2022, the Russkiy Mir Foundation reported running 96 centers across 45 countries that promote Russian language and culture through exhibitions, lectures, and academic partnerships.
—Tetiana Kotelnykova, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
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Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2025
The game will feature additional language options that include Spanish, French and Portuguese.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
The productions will complement — not replace — the English language recordings by Dale and Stephen, which were first released in 1999.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
As of 2022, the Russkiy Mir Foundation reported running 96 centers across 45 countries that promote Russian language and culture through exhibitions, lectures, and academic partnerships.
—Tetiana Kotelnykova, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
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These acts of radical playfulness—the inflatable dance parties, the music, the absurdity—have become part of the city’s moral vocabulary.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
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There's also critical thinking, vocabulary, and knowledge that books offer students.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
9 Oct. 2025
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Last year, Jimmy didn’t even know any defensive terminology.—
Jon Conahan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
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The guidelines contain specific terminology and targets for calories and nutrients that guide federal food aid for mothers and infants, free school lunches and what's served at military bases and in federal prisons.—
Will Stone,
NPR,
8 Oct. 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
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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
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With a Pine Green/Black color combination, the shoe’s tongue, eyelets, laces and heel are constructed in Foamposite-staple black mesh and nubuck.—
Riley Jones,
Footwear News,
21 Oct. 2025
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For Palestinians in Gaza, the words feel strange on the tongue.—
Ghada Abdulfattah,
The Atlantic,
21 Oct. 2025
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But Simeon Silverio, former publisher of the San Diego Asian Journal, said Bayani reflects only one of many Filipino dialects and would fail to represent the country’s diverse cultural groups, each of which has its own word for hero.—
Walker Armstrong,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Oct. 2025
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Even something as simple as the Chicago dialect and John Gacy’s individual odd, idiosyncratic way of speaking.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Oct. 2025
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Similar wording is found on the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft listing under technical details.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
16 Oct. 2025
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But legal experts say the wording was murky, making judicial interpretation a moving target.—
Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
11 Oct. 2025
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Music unites the interconnecting stories in this saga and expands its passions, with a sumptuous score by composer Stephen Flaherty and lyricist Lynn Ahrens that taps into a wide range of American styles, idioms and amalgams, even as the second act turns more dissonant.—
Frank Rizzo,
Variety,
17 Oct. 2025
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The history of labor struggle, infused with religious idioms, is a source of identity and values evident in everything from union meetings in churches to prayers on picket lines.—
The Conversation,
The Conversation,
7 Oct. 2025
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Every generation invents its own slang, and language evolves in ways most of us will never consciously perceive, Jones said.—
Scottie Andrew,
CNN Money,
18 Oct. 2025
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What other slang does Gen Alpha use?—
Mariyam Muhammad,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
8 Oct. 2025
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“Language.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/language. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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