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Recent Examples of patois Elliott spits her verses in patois, freeing up space on the track for the drums to get some before Cartel and M.I.A. slide through. 41. Steven J. Horowitz, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025 And so there’s West Indian patois and language and music and food. Vanessa Franko, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2025 There are countless examples like these, in which English scaffolding has adapted to the demands and the cultural heritage of its speakers, from Jamaican patois to Tok Pisin, of New Guinea. Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024 Instead, viewers are immersed in Millie’s Kingston, with dialogue spoken almost entirely in Jamaican patois, where opportunities are limited, gang violence persists and whiteness is still put on a pedestal. Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 25 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for patois
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Noun
  • It is written in an almost stream-of-consciousness style, rather like someone reluctantly dredging up their memories, with random thoughts interrupting the narrative, long sentences sometimes running to over a page, little punctuation, and peppered with Kobe dialect.
    Ginny Tapley Takemori September 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The Cajun dialect is a very particular one.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Security, errors, and trust dominate the risk analysis Despite the hype and muddled terminology, the core idea of AI agents—systems designed to autonomously take action to carry out specific tasks—is still generating a lot of justifiable excitement.
    Sage Lazzaro, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Educational twists are included, as Joe and the athletes explain sports terminology and lingo.
    R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Hiromu Yakura, a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, noticed differences in his own vocabulary about a year after ChatGPT debuted in late 2022.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Babbel isn’t like those free apps that flood you with random vocabulary.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The language was tacked on in a last-minute amendment just before the legislature adjourned for the 2024 session.
    Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Various exemptions for the requirement include having certain disabilities, having less than three years of formal English language learner instruction or receiving intensive support.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Algorithmic social media is driving the creation of new slang at a breakneck pace.
    Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2025

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“Patois.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patois. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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