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Recent Examples of pidgin
Epstein’s pidgin writing style, paired with his name-dropping and vagueness, makes emails like this excellent fodder for both speculation and genuine concern.
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Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 14 Nov. 2025
Ambitious and ultra-local, with pummeling percussion and fierce taunts in Nigerian pidgin, the album Rema was nominated for — last year’s Heis — boldly honored his roots and commanded respect.
—Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2025
Eventually, my family became adept at speaking a pidgin of English, Korean, and Japanese.
—Victoria Song, The Verge, 18 Apr. 2024
The dialogue in both sections, sprinkled like parsley with pidgin Yiddish and Hebrew prayer, has a secondhand aura that is also unconvincing.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
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Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 14 Nov. 2025
Ambitious and ultra-local, with pummeling percussion and fierce taunts in Nigerian pidgin, the album Rema was nominated for — last year’s Heis — boldly honored his roots and commanded respect.
—Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2025
Eventually, my family became adept at speaking a pidgin of English, Korean, and Japanese.
—Victoria Song, The Verge, 18 Apr. 2024
The dialogue in both sections, sprinkled like parsley with pidgin Yiddish and Hebrew prayer, has a secondhand aura that is also unconvincing.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pidgin
Noun
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The best tended to use puns, literalization — turning an idiom into reality — and pedantic humor to delight and torment children in equal measures.—
Lindsey Bever,
Washington Post,
21 June 2026
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That French idiom about having long teeth — les dents longues — can have negative connotations about a person’s ambitious streak.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
15 June 2026
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Shanghainese scriptwriter Zhang interwove her personal experience into the script, with more than 50% of the dialogue spoken in the Shanghai dialect.—
Jenny S. Li,
Variety,
12 June 2026
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Ultimately the difficulty of the task was what led him to sign on, which involved working with three different dialect coaches and studying with a Cuban professor named Rafael Rojas.—
Leigh Nordstrom,
Footwear News,
10 June 2026
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The exhibit’s title is derived from a Spanish colloquialism.—
Uwa Ede-Osifo,
Dallas Morning News,
13 Feb. 2026
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Ways to learn a new language Apps are a good way to learn the basics and proper pronunciation, but many colloquialisms, abbreviations and grammatically informal expressions used by fluent or native speakers aren’t taught on apps or in language classes.—
Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
12 Feb. 2026
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Paramount’s core belief is that brand extensions — including, in the current vernacular, immersive experiences such as restaurants — can’t be exploitative.—
Gary Baum,
HollywoodReporter,
18 June 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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The look that stuck with us from his spring 2026 menswear collection, his final for the house, was this brown field jacket—officially, in brand parlance, a hemp blouson.—
Justin Fenner,
Robb Report,
17 June 2026
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James thrived as a slot cornerback or a nickelback (depending on the parlance), acting as an additional run defender or pass rusher, depending on the situation.—
Elliott Teaford,
Oc Register,
17 June 2026
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That’s for sure when people speak patois, a vernacular version of English that’s based on a culture’s intonation.—
Harriette Cole,
Mercury News,
4 June 2026
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Real Miami-Dade officers, often occupying background roles, interacted in character during those stretches as well, sustaining the casual banter and shared patois of a working unit.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
16 Jan. 2026
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Benoit delights in language as much as her heroine, weaving Regency-era slang throughout and appending a chapter-by-chapter glossary of vulgarities.—
Angelina Mazza,
Vulture,
19 June 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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Wood saw regionalism as the New Deal in visual form: Both affirmed the country’s varied livelihoods and landscapes.—
John P. Murphy,
ARTnews.com,
5 Apr. 2026
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Just don’t let the deniers know that regionalism and sustainability are essentially one and the same.—
Richard Olsen,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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“Pidgin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pidgin. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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