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slang

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adjective

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Recent Examples of slang
Noun
Wilson also gets called a ‘simp,’ which is slang for a man who is viewed as foolish for being submissive or overly catering to his woman. Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 26 Aug. 2025
Adjective
These systems can interpret regional slang, idioms and context-specific expressions, hence minimizing both over-censorship and under-enforcement. Anees Ali Khan, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025 That said, like any slang, tone and context matter. Annabelle Canela, Parents, 29 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for slang
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slang
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
  • 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
  • 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 expansion will also include more language support, with plans to increase access to consulting and capital assistance in Spanish and Marshallese, according to an organization news release.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 11 Sep. 2025
  • There is no time limit on how long such consultations could take, and experts say the language is flexible enough to allow each member to decide how far to go in responding to armed aggression against another.
    Matt Spetalnick, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025

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“Slang.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slang. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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