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the manner of speech used by a particular group of people
In military parlance, "bug out" means "to retreat." They spoke the parlance of those in the technology industry.
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Recent Examples of parlance
This is called a conjunction in the parlance of orbital mechanics.
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Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 28 July 2025
The parlance of ‘messaging’ rather than ‘ideas’ suggests consumers who prefer unanimities of class perspective to fraught exchanges with ‘outsiders’ that risk social discomfort.
—Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
But nobody was quite prepared for what a bombshell, to use the show’s parlance, season seven would turn out to be.
—Rebecca Jennings, Vulture, 14 July 2025
In the parlance of the United Nations, it is somewhat expected to call for a Framework Convention on significant topics.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 12 July 2025
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Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 28 July 2025
The parlance of ‘messaging’ rather than ‘ideas’ suggests consumers who prefer unanimities of class perspective to fraught exchanges with ‘outsiders’ that risk social discomfort.
—Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
But nobody was quite prepared for what a bombshell, to use the show’s parlance, season seven would turn out to be.
—Rebecca Jennings, Vulture, 14 July 2025
In the parlance of the United Nations, it is somewhat expected to call for a Framework Convention on significant topics.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 12 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parlance
Noun
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International responses are often hampered by terminology.—
Elizabeth Shackelford,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Aug. 2025
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While some of the terminology is different, Pinnock achieved his goal of not undergoing a radical system change.—
Jerry McDonald,
Mercury News,
29 July 2025
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Pat picked up Spanish and the local dialect of the region.—
Nell Salzman,
Chicago Tribune,
31 July 2025
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Such expressions of moral clarity are rare, though, in an age of confusion and endlessly contested facts that has been harnessed by the Netanyahu government, which speaks a fluent dialect of the MAGA language of politics.—
Ian Crouch,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
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For much of the past 1,000 years, Yiddish was spoken by three quarters of the world’s Jews — a Germanic vernacular, seasoned with Hebrew, Slavic and Romance vocabulary, that bridged polyglot Jewish communities in Central and Eastern Europe and followed them to the far corners of the diaspora.—
Andrew Silow-Carroll,
Sun Sentinel,
9 June 2025
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Interior richness is a part of quiet, part of one’s own interiority creating a vernacular that’s not overtly storytelling but is about the unspeakable, the silence, the quiet that Tina Campt and Fred Moten and others speak about.—
Caitlin Woolsey,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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He’s been talking about replacing it with a permanent ballroom for a long time, in his usual Dictator Chic idiom.—
Christopher Bonanos,
Curbed,
1 Aug. 2025
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This could be in Elsbeth’s usual light and fizzy idiom or perhaps a brief foray into Scandi-noir.—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
6 Mar. 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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These systems can interpret regional slang, idioms and context-specific expressions, hence minimizing both over-censorship and under-enforcement.—
Anees Ali Khan,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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The hotline is available 24/7 in more than 170 languages.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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As fiduciaries, trustees are charged with managing trust assets, making distributions according to the trust’s terms and adhering strictly to the grantor’s intent and the language in the trust agreement.—
Royce Ramey,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Parlance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parlance. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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