as in modernism
a new word or expression or a new meaning of a word
scientific neologisms
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Recent Examples of neologism
Perhaps that’s why we’ve been bombarded with so many neologisms to describe mind states, like brain rot, or Eusexua.
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Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2025
Pepperberg demonstrated that Alex asked questions, performed simple addition and, in a few instances, coined neologisms.
—Camille Bromley Gabra Zackman Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
As a host, Scherzinger could play the eager theater kid to the likes of the intimidating Simon Cowell, throwing out neologisms like schamazing.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2024
Osmond and Huxley had discussed possible neologisms to describe the impact such drugs had on the body and mind.
—Paul Lindholdt, JSTOR Daily, 11 Sep. 2024
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Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2025
Pepperberg demonstrated that Alex asked questions, performed simple addition and, in a few instances, coined neologisms.
—Camille Bromley Gabra Zackman Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
As a host, Scherzinger could play the eager theater kid to the likes of the intimidating Simon Cowell, throwing out neologisms like schamazing.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2024
Osmond and Huxley had discussed possible neologisms to describe the impact such drugs had on the body and mind.
—Paul Lindholdt, JSTOR Daily, 11 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for neologism
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MoMA and modernism — in the sense of experimentation and the rejection of tradition — have never been easy bedfellows.—
Rachel Corbett,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2025
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Among this cohort is also Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, whose vision of industrial modernism helped define the look of postwar urban America.—
Nick Remsen,
CNN Money,
7 Apr. 2025
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