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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
Or in Cowboys parlance, think Darren Woodson.
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Bill Jones, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
In tactical parlance, your players must generate ‘separation’ from their opponents.
—Jon MacKenzie, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2026
Michaels, who worked with Williams during the latter’s time in NXT, felt that Williams made a great babyface (a good guy in wrestling parlance), but needed to spend more time as a heel (bad guy).
—Joe Otterson, Variety, 16 Apr. 2026
But in modern English parlance, mantra has come to mean a person or group’s representative phrase, similar to a slogan or a watchword.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2026
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Bill Jones, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
In tactical parlance, your players must generate ‘separation’ from their opponents.
—Jon MacKenzie, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2026
Michaels, who worked with Williams during the latter’s time in NXT, felt that Williams made a great babyface (a good guy in wrestling parlance), but needed to spend more time as a heel (bad guy).
—Joe Otterson, Variety, 16 Apr. 2026
But in modern English parlance, mantra has come to mean a person or group’s representative phrase, similar to a slogan or a watchword.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2026
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Voibe uses OpenAI’s latest Whisper model to transcribe speech into text up to three times faster than typing while maintaining strong accuracy with natural speech, accents, and technical terminology.—
StackCommerce Team,
PC Magazine,
6 June 2026
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Tiny stuff, that no one except insiders would notice—shuttle cockpit switch positions, authentic uniform patches, terminology.—
Eric Berger & Lee Hutchinson,
ArsTechnica,
31 May 2026
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Brig is in the Upper Valais, a gaunt and conservative place where the inhabitants speak Walliser German, an Alpine dialect that many Swiss people find unintelligible.—
Sam Knight,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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The contemporary entertainment industry pushes that logic into nearly grotesque territory, as film and TV productions compete against 24/7 internet feeds and a rapidly changing meme dialect designed to always leave someone out of the loop.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
31 May 2026
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While some major clients’ taste left a mark on the jeweler’s creative vernacular, what Americans came for was to be on-trend.—
Lily Templeton,
Footwear News,
26 May 2026
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Industry vernacular distinguishes the conventional mortgage as qualified mortgage, or QM.—
Jeff Lazerson,
Oc Register,
7 May 2026
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The Suez Canal incident of March 2021 revealed the same pattern in a different idiom.—
Dr. Aditya Vikram Kashyap,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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Probably because at the time many of the time signatures and chordal progressions that Miles used were over the head of a young guitar player still functioning in the blues and folk idioms.—
Steve Baltin,
Los Angeles Times,
25 May 2026
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How did the name Go-Go being used as slang for parties come about?—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
11 May 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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The titular bear, who communicates with the girl through language—seemingly telepathic—plays a crucial role in her survival.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 June 2026
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The term English learners is defined by the Illinois State Board of Education as students who do not meet certain English proficiency standards and whose home language background is a language other than English.—
Addison Wright,
Chicago Tribune,
8 June 2026
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“Parlance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parlance. Accessed 10 Jun. 2026.
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