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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
The new documents, photos, drawings and videos add to the government's rapidly expanding archive of unexplained sightings, known in official parlance as UAPs, or Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena.
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Josh Meyer,
USA Today,
12 June 2026
The post quickly became a vaunted piece of creepypasta, influencing everything from Severance to Playboi Carti, and it has been adopted as everyday parlance to describe any eerie, liminal space.
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Harry Thorfinn-George,
Pitchfork,
11 June 2026
Harbour, working with ASL interpreters on set, adapted the lines as written to fit the rhythms and structures of ASL parlance.
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Daniel D'addario,
Variety,
11 June 2026
In corporate parlance, a spin-off occurs when a company creates a separate, independent business entity from one of its existing divisions.
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Rob Nikolewski,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 June 2026
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Josh Meyer,
USA Today,
12 June 2026
The post quickly became a vaunted piece of creepypasta, influencing everything from Severance to Playboi Carti, and it has been adopted as everyday parlance to describe any eerie, liminal space.
—
Harry Thorfinn-George,
Pitchfork,
11 June 2026
Harbour, working with ASL interpreters on set, adapted the lines as written to fit the rhythms and structures of ASL parlance.
—
Daniel D'addario,
Variety,
11 June 2026
In corporate parlance, a spin-off occurs when a company creates a separate, independent business entity from one of its existing divisions.
—
Rob Nikolewski,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parlance
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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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In our day, before there was the interweb, 30 to 40 interviews a week, promoting stuff back-to-back-to-back in all dialects and languages.
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Like every precocious rising star fluent in the dialect of bluster, Wembanyama talked big, too.
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At the height of Messi’s era-defining rivalry with Cristiano Ronaldo, as the great Barcelona team of Pep Guardiola clashed with Jose Mourinho’s Real Madrid, Spanish football was a global spectacle that helped to add new vocabulary, and more of a hispanic flavour, to the football vernacular.
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Paramount’s core belief is that brand extensions — including, in the current vernacular, immersive experiences such as restaurants — can’t be exploitative.
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The best tended to use puns, literalization — turning an idiom into reality — and pedantic humor to delight and torment children in equal measures.
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That French idiom about having long teeth — les dents longues — can have negative connotations about a person’s ambitious streak.
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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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How did the name Go-Go being used as slang for parties come about?
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AIs can communicate with us using our language.
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Mamdani, proud of his socialist values, had developed a language for communicating a collective, interdependent vision of city life through his consistent emphasis on affordability.
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“Parlance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parlance. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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