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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 deal brings Spanish-language coverage of the 2026 FIFA World Cup and Love Island USA to the platform, with the NBA and NFL seasons coming back soon.
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Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
29 June 2026
If those documents include language making the signer personally responsible for payment, the nursing home may attempt to enforce the agreement if bills go unpaid.
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Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
29 June 2026
Your next opportunity may require new language, relationships and industry knowledge.
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Adam Broda,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2026
In 2011, with another immigrant, Severin Hacker from Switzerland, von Ahn created the language-teaching app Duolingo, which has over 40 million monthly users and offers language learning in 40 languages.
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Sandra Guzmán,
USA Today,
29 June 2026
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Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
29 June 2026
If those documents include language making the signer personally responsible for payment, the nursing home may attempt to enforce the agreement if bills go unpaid.
—
Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
29 June 2026
Your next opportunity may require new language, relationships and industry knowledge.
—
Adam Broda,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2026
In 2011, with another immigrant, Severin Hacker from Switzerland, von Ahn created the language-teaching app Duolingo, which has over 40 million monthly users and offers language learning in 40 languages.
—
Sandra Guzmán,
USA Today,
29 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for language
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Understanding The Exposure Gap Many young marketers arrive with ambition, vocabulary and a solid grasp of brand theory.
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Meanwhile, the very vocabulary of humanitarianism and antiracism has become so selectively applied or debased as to be meaningless.
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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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Unlike the brighter, more melodic style often associated with Austria and the Tyrol region, Swiss yodeling is slower and more melancholic — an emotionally nuanced tradition rooted in distinct regional dialects.
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Unlike the brighter, more melodic style often associated with Austria and the Tyrol region, Swiss yodeling is slower and more melancholic — an emotionally nuanced tradition rooted in distinct regional dialects.
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But the additional wording on the MSG sign about confidentiality during and post-event reinforces that there is no livestream, no TV broadcast and likely a social media blackout – until Swift and Kelce deem otherwise.
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The Republican National Committee sued in 2024, arguing that the wording of federal election statutes indicates that Election Day itself is the deadline for when ballots can be received.
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On the one hand, the translation serves as a source for the idioms of nineteenth-century English; on the other, as evidence of the ideas that the translator held about a Colombian woman writer.
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Out of love for different sound systems, different writing systems, different grammars, different sets of concepts, different idioms, different ways of seeing the world.
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Their influence stretched beyond music into fashion, dance trends and slang, and as member Pimpin' noted, fans are still doing the group's signature dance more than two decades later, something a SeaWorld whale recently proved.
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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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“Language.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/language. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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