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as in tongues
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 dialects
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 dictions
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 languages
Beyond the music, these earbuds offer high-accuracy AI translation for 100 languages via the Soundcore app and support wireless charging, providing up to 10 hours of playback on a single charge and 42 hours total with the case.
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Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 31 Mar. 2026
His books have been published in more than 55 languages with more than 24 million copies in print, according to a Drake University news release.
—Lucia Cheng, Des Moines Register, 31 Mar. 2026
The double feature will be accessible in over 40 languages, including American Sign Language, British Sign Language and English Audio Descriptions.
—Kennedy French, Variety, 31 Mar. 2026
At Hope & Help in Central Florida, a clinic and pharmacy servicing low-income individuals, patient assistants and patient navigators speak multiple languages.
—Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2026
The Official Languages Act (OLA), first passed by Canada’s parliament in 1969 and strengthened in 2023, enshrines English and French as Canada’s two official languages.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2026
The robot is expected to help visitors navigate the airport more easily by providing directions, terminal updates, and travel information in multiple languages.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Mar. 2026
Fifty languages are spoken by a dozen ethnic groups, which include my tribe, the Ogoni, the Ijaw (the delta’s largest ethnic group), as well as the Ilaje, Ibibio, Andoni, Itsekiri, and Urhobo peoples.
—Noo Saro-Wiwa, The Dial, 24 Mar. 2026
Coyle, a resident of Pueblo, Colorado, was detained in January 2025 while in Afghanistan conducting research on Afghan languages, according to the Pueblo Chieftain, part of the USA TODAY Network.
—Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 24 Mar. 2026
Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 31 Mar. 2026
His books have been published in more than 55 languages with more than 24 million copies in print, according to a Drake University news release.
—Lucia Cheng, Des Moines Register, 31 Mar. 2026
The double feature will be accessible in over 40 languages, including American Sign Language, British Sign Language and English Audio Descriptions.
—Kennedy French, Variety, 31 Mar. 2026
At Hope & Help in Central Florida, a clinic and pharmacy servicing low-income individuals, patient assistants and patient navigators speak multiple languages.
—Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2026
The Official Languages Act (OLA), first passed by Canada’s parliament in 1969 and strengthened in 2023, enshrines English and French as Canada’s two official languages.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2026
The robot is expected to help visitors navigate the airport more easily by providing directions, terminal updates, and travel information in multiple languages.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Mar. 2026
Fifty languages are spoken by a dozen ethnic groups, which include my tribe, the Ogoni, the Ijaw (the delta’s largest ethnic group), as well as the Ilaje, Ibibio, Andoni, Itsekiri, and Urhobo peoples.
—Noo Saro-Wiwa, The Dial, 24 Mar. 2026
Coyle, a resident of Pueblo, Colorado, was detained in January 2025 while in Afghanistan conducting research on Afghan languages, according to the Pueblo Chieftain, part of the USA TODAY Network.
—Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 24 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for languages
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Olympian figure skater Alysa Liu has been on the tip of everyone’s tongues, following her two gold medal wins at the 2026 Winter Olympics.—
Katie Decker-Jacoby,
StyleCaster,
30 Mar. 2026
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The sediment close to their roots can be as sweet as fruit nectars or tree sap, although to human tongues the mud tastes overwhelmingly of salt and decay.—
David George Haskell,
Big Think,
27 Mar. 2026
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Human communication with honeyguides in northern Mozambique occurs in local dialects.—
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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Not between English and other languages but between the dialects spoken by different corners of the industry.—
Amber Nigam,
Harvard Business Review,
11 Mar. 2026
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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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In the October 2025 study that followed families over time, children who spent more time with digital media at age 2 tended to have smaller vocabularies at age 3, regardless of the child’s temperament or the caregiver’s personality traits.—
Miriam Fauzia,
Dallas Morning News,
2 Mar. 2026
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Teams were asked to learn new interfaces, adopt new vocabularies, and take responsibility for outputs whose behavior remained probabilistic rather than deterministic.—
Alexander Puutio,
Forbes.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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With cultural mainstays like rice extract and buzzy compounds like several types of hyaluronic acid, these formulations offer more than straightforward sun protection.—
Deanna Pai,
Vogue,
19 Mar. 2026
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Current formulations of the drug also persist in the bloodstream for long periods, which can have unintended consequences.—
Michal Ruprecht,
NPR,
16 Mar. 2026
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If the assignment is to translate something from a foreign language, there are plenty of tools and resources that can do it for you, including by recognizing and figuratively translating idioms.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
25 Mar. 2026
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Those books introduced me to a vision of American teenage life and taught me the rhythms and idioms of American English, nuances that would later replace my Britishisms and shape my career as a journalist.—
Faith Karimi,
CNN Money,
17 Feb. 2026
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“Languages.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/languages. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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