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Noun
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And comparing more recent historic forms of English and Sranan to get at centuries-old linguistic forms isn’t ironclad, Creanza pointed out.—
Cathleen O'Grady,
Ars Technica,
14 Mar. 2018
Noun
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This particular strain of modernism grappled with the difficulty of capturing in language the nonverbal aspects of subjective experience.—
Akhil Sharma,
New Yorker,
28 Jan. 2026
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This Park City stunner is what happens when sleek modernism meets après-ski luxury.—
Bailey Berg,
Architectural Digest,
26 Jan. 2026
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This book is a deeply scholarly, policy-relevant history of money, from the advent of coinage, paper currency, and bank money in ancient, medieval, and early modern times to the stablecoins and central bank digital currencies of today and tomorrow.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Dec. 2025
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The retailer has posted signs requesting exact coinage.—
Alexander Coolidge,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
Noun
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This system frees up space for speeches to be more interesting, as seen in Sheryl Lee Ralph’s musical interpolation of the acceptance-speech form.—
Vulture,
Vulture,
12 Sep. 2022
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Tam argues that these speech forms are not just dialects but distinct languages, as different from one another as many of the languages spoken in Europe.—
Gina Anne Tam,
Foreign Affairs,
20 Apr. 2021
Noun
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Everything else is a euphemism for old fashioned domination that the region has spent generations trying to escape.—
Boris Muñoz,
Time,
12 Jan. 2026
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In a year of cancellations and euphemisms, the city mounted a counterprogram that was quietly insurrectionary, stubbornly joyous.—
The Editors,
Curbed,
15 Dec. 2025
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These neologisms weren’t just clever.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Nov. 2025
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Podcasts, newsletters, and Words of the Year have popularized neologisms, etymologies, and usage trends.—
Stefan Fatsis,
The Atlantic,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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For instance, people, a French loanword, may be spelled peple, pepill, poeple, or poepul.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
10 Apr. 2025
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The newest dictionary additions include loanwords from Southeast Asia, South Africa and Ireland.—
Peter Guo,
NBC news,
27 Mar. 2025
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Her vetting crusades have brought about a new Washington colloquialism.—
Antonia Hitchens,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
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The show chugged along nonetheless, gradually attracting fans who adored its stark cinematography and weirdo colloquialisms.—
Claire McNear,
Rolling Stone,
8 Nov. 2025
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“Polysyllable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polysyllable. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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