Thesaurus results for PARLANCES

parlances

noun

plural of parlance

as in vernacularisms

formal 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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Researchers have built ArabCulture-Dialogue, the first benchmark for testing whether leading AI models can understand and converse in Modern Standard Arabic and 13 national dialects.

— Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2026
And while Hasidic dialects are by far the most spoken among modern Yiddish speakers, opportunities to learn the Hasidic dialect from native speakers like Malowicki are relatively rare.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of dialects

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For localization, Voithru’s Totus offers AI dubbing across 29 languages, and XL8 brings both MediaCAT and EventCAT for video localization and real-time interpretation.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026
Flowkey works across laptops, phones, and tablets and is available in 11 languages.

— StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 23 Aug. 2026

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There are plenty of idioms to describe Andrean outside hitter Aleece Ehler’s freshman season.

— Noah Poser, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2026
On the one hand, the translation serves as a source for the idioms of nineteenth-century English; on the other, as evidence of the ideas that the translator held about a Colombian woman writer.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 July 2026

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