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pidgin

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as in idiom

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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. — 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 See All Example Sentences for pidgin

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The first Velvet Underground album, the mid-period Beatles, Kinks, and Creedence Clearwater Revival records, with enough time, seem almost like different components to the same idiom.

— Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026
Cinema is, after all, a language, and Belgian filmmakers come from a country built on the need to understand language as a bridge—between its regions, its people, and its idioms.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of idiom

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Italy is a unique country where every city has its own identity, architecture, traditions, flavors, dialects and even different ways of life.

— Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 21 Sep. 2026
Punic, the language of Carthage, was a dialect of Phoenician that was widely used in North Africa.

— Scott Spires, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of dialect

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To borrow Mao’s parlance, Xi’s not ready yet for the strategic counter-offensive stage.

— Andy Browne, semafor.com, 21 Sep. 2026
The Kremlin can present demonstrations of military power, even without a victory, as proof of Russian independence in international affairs—sovereignty, in Putin’s parlance.

— MICHAEL KIMMAGE, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of parlance

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Jamaica’s official language and civilizational ideal was the Queen’s English, but the island’s lingua franca was the marvelous variant of that tongue called patois.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2026
In truth, plenty of New Yorkers are both privileged and come from elsewhere, but still fall into the rhythm and the patois that has long defined the city.

— Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 3 July 2026

Definition of patois

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McCaffrey and the 49ers will return to the United States after their win and lesson in Australian slang to play the Miami Dolphins in Week 2.

— Ryan Canfield OutKick, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2026
The script itself is filled with the language of its time and place, including Berliner gutter slang and high-society clichés, casino speech and capitalist jargon, spoken Yiddish and literary German.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of slang

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At the very least, regionalism marked a spatial recalibration in the literary imaginary, away from European metropoles and national capitals and toward rural hinterlands.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2026
The sport is defined by regionalism and spectacle, contradiction and chaos.

— Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026

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