parlance

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Recent Examples of parlance Our driver cuts down an alley, a ruelle in the local parlance, only to run into more gridlock. Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2025 In Wall Street parlance, the float refers to the number of shares available to the public. Dade Hayes, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2025 But in Hollywood the more apt analogy might be to Brad Pitt’s World War Z, a movie Ellison’s money bailed out after its budget ballooned and an explosive climactic scene shot in Budapest (for Red Square) was deemed, in technical industry parlance, bad. Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2025 Hogan also famously wrestled for WWE competitor World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in the 1990s, turning heel (wrestling parlance for bad guy) and becoming Hollywood Hulk Hogan as a member of the New World Order (NWO). Joe Otterson, Variety, 26 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for parlance
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Noun
  • Rolling back the terminology means reprinting guidance, rewriting websites, and retraining staff—all at a time when health budgets have tightened.
    Dr. Nikki Romanik, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The same applies to some of the terminology, such as the Lake Erie Renewable Energy Resilience Project.
    Craig Rucker, Boston Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For Minha, the biggest challenge was mastering the North Korean dialect.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Day-one fans of Taylor Swift know that the pop superstar has come a long way since launching her music career as a country singer — and that evolution is apparent in her dialect, according to speech scientists.
    Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Many of the terms are Gen Z and Alpha vernacular influenced by evolving social media trends.
    Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 24 Sep. 2025
  • In academic vernacular, this refers to the gap between stated and revealed preferences.
    Diana Spehar, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Meanwhile, analytical software has revolutionized linguistic inquiry, enabling greater understanding of the ways language works—when, how, and why words break out; the specific contexts for expressions and idioms.
    Stefan Fatsis, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Nonnas There's a saying that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, and Joe Scaravella (Vince Vaughn) of 2025's Nonnas is the perfect depiction of the idiom.
    Jacqueline Weiss, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But there’s a whole lot of other slang spoken around here.
    ​Wendy Wisner, Parents, 8 Sep. 2025
  • But first, the deeper history and roots of certain slang terms A number of phrases that are labeled as Gen Z lingo or internet slang today are derived from Black and drag cultures.
    Mia Thurow, jsonline.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Feller told Al Jazeera that Chinese employers would have to accommodate non-Mandarin speakers by offering English-language positions and improve work-life balance.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • One of the most prominent Mexican actresses of her generation, Notni led Amazon MGM’s 2024 reboot of Zorro and recently wrapped Day One, a Spanish-language Amazon series which releases later this year.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2025

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“Parlance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parlance. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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