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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
In military parlance, this usually translates to one attack on a specific target that might involve multiple weapons.
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Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 8 Mar. 2026
In negotiating parlance, that’s the most a buyer is willing to pay, and Paramount hasn’t shared its answer.
—Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 17 Feb. 2026
Now the trick will be to get older females to show up as well (in movie parlance.
—Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 15 Feb. 2026
But in telehealth-platform parlance, personalization usually refers to creating a version of a name-brand medication that fits a patient’s needs by, say, changing the dose, adding other active ingredients, or offering it in a different format.
—Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2026
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Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 8 Mar. 2026
In negotiating parlance, that’s the most a buyer is willing to pay, and Paramount hasn’t shared its answer.
—Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 17 Feb. 2026
Now the trick will be to get older females to show up as well (in movie parlance.
—Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 15 Feb. 2026
But in telehealth-platform parlance, personalization usually refers to creating a version of a name-brand medication that fits a patient’s needs by, say, changing the dose, adding other active ingredients, or offering it in a different format.
—Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parlance
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The platform that routes content to the right provider, enforces terminology, tracks usage, maintains audit trails, and integrates with CI/CD pipelines and CMS platforms becomes the product.—
Wyles Daniel,
USA Today,
15 Apr. 2026
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Additional procedural and administrative changes to filing requirements, terminology and other matters may also impact associations in meaningful ways.—
Evonne Andris,
Miami Herald,
9 Apr. 2026
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The British colonial name of New Cut was different from other nearby creeks—Wadmalaw, Bohicket, Leadenwah, Stono—all named in Indigenous dialects.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Apr. 2026
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Today, many of those words fill out the default dialect of an entire generation — regardless of race, region or class — living online.—
Moriah Humiston,
NBC news,
3 Apr. 2026
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The Walther Collection is incredibly wide-ranging, and features ninth- and twentieth-century vernacular photographs from the United States, Europe, Colombia, and Mexico; as well as modern and contemporary art from Japan, Germany and other places.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
9 Apr. 2026
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The movement and field of preservation and architectural history has since broadened its purview to include the vernacular, the midcentury modern and even the postmodern, yet our data and policies in Chicago remain stuck in the past.—
Elizabeth Blasius,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Mar. 2026
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This new flood of venture-capitalist-as-influencer platforms has promoted and naturalized a distinctive military-industrial idiom that closely—and strangely—apes certain twentieth-century artistic tropes.—
Simon Denny,
Artforum,
20 Apr. 2026
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And, as the idiom goes, steel sharpens steel.—
Kyle Eustice,
SPIN,
7 Apr. 2026
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The home was dubbed Snowman in honor of Bryan’s late brother, Chris, who earned the nickname from the golf slang for a score of eight on an individual hole.—
Katie Schultz,
Architectural Digest,
16 Apr. 2026
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In the original Chicago slang that produced Chad, the female counterpart was typically a Trixie rather than a Stacy.—
David Faris,
TheWeek,
8 Apr. 2026
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The hotline is available 24/7 in more than 170 languages.—
Becca Longmire,
PEOPLE,
20 Apr. 2026
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Layoffs slashed offices that dealt with English-language acquisition and those that worked with poor, minority, and rural districts.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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“Parlance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parlance. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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