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a reference book giving information about the meanings, pronunciations, uses, and origins of words listed in alphabetical order an avid word enthusiast who is compiling a lexicon of archaic and unusual words

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Recent Examples of lexicon Social media has birthed an entire lexicon replicated by millions online — even if these words don’t actually mean skibidi. Adrian Ma, NPR, 19 Aug. 2025 The film’s dialogue entered the lexicon, and remains widely quoted and referenced fourr decades later. Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 16 Aug. 2025 Ant International claims the platform combats hallucinations and other data risks by using over 100 recognition models and 600,000 risk lexicons. Lionel Lim, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2025 This trend is also coinciding with a wider shift within the beauty lexicon where people are breaking down body hair stereotypes. Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 9 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lexicon
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  • Based on that research, Coleman released an online Owens Valley Paiute dictionary, sentence builder and translator and hopes to continue building more advanced language-learning tools.
    Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Google Translate may have started out as a glorified digital dictionary, but it’s grown into an increasingly capable interpreter.
    Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 26 Aug. 2025

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“Lexicon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lexicon. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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