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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
Yet the fact that these human psychological phenomena can be gleaned from the language patterns found in an LLM's training data is fascinating in and of itself.
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Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 3 Sep. 2025
The company has positioned itself to revive theatrical Hindi-language cinema through genre-defining storytelling.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
That vision has remained constant, but Advisry’s design language has shifted with each season.
—Karissa Mitchell, Essence, 3 Sep. 2025
All will be in their original languages with English subtitles.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2025
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Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 3 Sep. 2025
The company has positioned itself to revive theatrical Hindi-language cinema through genre-defining storytelling.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
That vision has remained constant, but Advisry’s design language has shifted with each season.
—Karissa Mitchell, Essence, 3 Sep. 2025
All will be in their original languages with English subtitles.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for language
Noun
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For decades, BCIs were limited to toy demos and small vocabularies.—
Jason Snyder,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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There was a clear vocabulary to define consent within OneTaste, but one witness after another spoke of pressure and powerlessness.—
Thessaly La Force,
New Yorker,
29 Aug. 2025
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Security, errors, and trust dominate the risk analysis Despite the hype and muddled terminology, the core idea of AI agents—systems designed to autonomously take action to carry out specific tasks—is still generating a lot of justifiable excitement.—
Sage Lazzaro,
Fortune,
3 Sep. 2025
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Educational twists are included, as Joe and the athletes explain sports terminology and lingo.—
R. Daniel Foster,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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But even atop those peaks, the orchestra and chorus remained well-balanced, and the chorus’s diction impeccable.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Aug. 2025
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Contemporaries often reported his near fixation on matters of diction, punctuation, and even spacing in his verses.—
Gregory Jusdanis,
Literary Hub,
12 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Of course, with all the tail- and tongue-wagging joy our little friends get from tagging along comes some risk.—
Olivia Young,
Travel + Leisure,
2 Sep. 2025
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All the characters speak English, in either British or vaguely European accents, lifting Assayas from the burden of getting his actors to speak in a Russian tongue and helping to widen the casting net for one of his starriest ensembles.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
31 Aug. 2025
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It is written in an almost stream-of-consciousness style, rather like someone reluctantly dredging up their memories, with random thoughts interrupting the narrative, long sentences sometimes running to over a page, little punctuation, and peppered with Kobe dialect.—
Ginny Tapley Takemori
September 4,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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The Cajun dialect is a very particular one.—
Zack Sharf,
Variety,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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However, a comparison shows identical wording in numerous places.—
Erik S. Hanley,
jsonline.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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While the exact wording of prompts have become less important in recent months thanks to the more advanced intelligence of LLMs, many best practices remain that can yield better results than others.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Because the construction is a natural and graceful part of our English idiom.—
Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Aug. 2025
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Human reviewers still refine idiom and theology, but the transformation in speed will be similar to the jump from quill to printing press.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Aug. 2025
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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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Algorithmic social media is driving the creation of new slang at a breakneck pace.—
Allison Parshall,
Scientific American,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Language.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/language. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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