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Recent Examples of pidgin
The language is a high-modernist juxtaposition of street urchin pidgin, Yiddish English and finely observed free indirect discourse — New York’s voice is plural.
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New York Times, 30 June 2022
ClayRocksU excels at something similar, fusing Igbo language and local pidgin folk elements with punk rock.
—Ama Udofa, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2022
With the song — a feel-good tune sung in Nigerian pidgin and blending punk rock, Afrobeats, and folk — Okorocha and Co. are also attempting to challenge the negative stereotypes attached to rock music in this part of the world.
—Ama Udofa, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2022
But Amazon expects this person to be well connected with the Nigerian film industry, already boasting relationships with top creators, fluency in Nigerian pidgin and one or more indigenous languages.
—Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2022
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New York Times, 30 June 2022
ClayRocksU excels at something similar, fusing Igbo language and local pidgin folk elements with punk rock.
—Ama Udofa, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2022
With the song — a feel-good tune sung in Nigerian pidgin and blending punk rock, Afrobeats, and folk — Okorocha and Co. are also attempting to challenge the negative stereotypes attached to rock music in this part of the world.
—Ama Udofa, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2022
But Amazon expects this person to be well connected with the Nigerian film industry, already boasting relationships with top creators, fluency in Nigerian pidgin and one or more indigenous languages.
—Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pidgin
Noun
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Unleashing Wood has ushered in an exciting new phase for a widely influential band that has defined a state-of-the-art jazz idiom deeply engaged with other genres.—
Andrew Gilbert,
Mercury News,
23 May 2025
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Scientists analyzed recordings of three groups of chimpanzees living in the Ivory Coast and found that chimps can combine their hoots, grunts and calls in a similar way to how humans use idioms or change the order of words to build new phrases.—
Evan Bush,
NBC news,
11 May 2025
Noun
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There’s no universal language—only tribal dialects.—
Shekar Natarajan,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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Because the characters are speaking a very distinctive local dialect, and that’s, of course, completely lost in translation.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
28 May 2025
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This could involve helping systems learn colloquialisms and proper usages of terms.—
Kathy Kristof,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Mar. 2025
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You would be forgiven for assuming this a playful colloquialism, perhaps revealing a tenderness to the hunt.—
Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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The catchphrases Gómez Bolaños penned have also become ingrained in the vernacular of many countries.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025
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Outlets including The Wall Street Journal and CNN identified the vernacular for this courtesy: a gimme.—
Matthew Purdy,
New York Times,
17 May 2025
Noun
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In newspaper and wire service parlance, a dateline is the name of a place, typically written in capital letters and followed by an em dash, at the beginning of an article.—
Hailey Branson-Potts,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2025
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In Israeli parlance, the prime minister is a freier—a sucker.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
22 May 2025
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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
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And so there’s West Indian patois and language and music and food.—
Vanessa Franko,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jan. 2025
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Today's teen slang might seem like complete gibberish, but you may be surprised by how many terms echo phrases from the past.—
Annabelle Canela,
Parents,
3 June 2025
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This translates as: The banlieues influence Paris and Paris influences the world (Paname is French slang for the city).—
Tomás Hill López-Menchero,
New York Times,
31 May 2025
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Notwithstanding the resurgence of regionalism in international affairs, none of the contributors expect the five American countries to form a coherent Western Hemisphere lobby within the G-20.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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The shift toward regionalism and local priorities over global cooperation adds further strain, complicating transactions across international borders and increasing the demand for more flexible payment infrastructures.—
Victor Orlovski,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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“Pidgin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pidgin. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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