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tends to use too much hacker's slang when talking to coworkers about their computer problems
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Recent Examples of slang
Annabelle Canela, Parents, 3 June 2025
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
This slang often emerges from social media platforms like TikTok, Snapchat, and gaming communities, where short, catchy, and visually oriented communication is essential.
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 May 2025
Learning the forum’s slang was the key to understanding its jokes: lulz, fren, TFW, troll.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 30 Apr. 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
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
This slang often emerges from social media platforms like TikTok, Snapchat, and gaming communities, where short, catchy, and visually oriented communication is essential.
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 May 2025
Learning the forum’s slang was the key to understanding its jokes: lulz, fren, TFW, troll.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slang
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After all, ocean issues can involve sophisticated terminology that may make newcomers hesitant to follow along.—
Simi Thambi,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2025
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District 3 Board Member Ann Maine, while in support of the assessment’s goal, questioned if different terminology could be used for the same result to avoid undue attention from the national level.—
Joseph States,
Chicago Tribune,
12 June 2025
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Some stems from that, and then some stems from being around Pacific Islanders all day and other Samoans and Hawaiians and different dialects and different slang.—
Rebecca Jennings,
Vulture,
11 June 2025
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And last summer, Ferrari executives reportedly received WhatsApp voice messages mimicking their CEO’s voice, down to the regional dialect.—
Anisha Sircar,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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According to the California Library Association, summer reading programs help children and teens retain and enhance their reading skills over the summer and benefit adults by stimulating the brain, increasing vocabulary and sparking imagination.—
Anne Gelhaus,
Mercury News,
16 June 2025
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For much of the past 1,000 years, Yiddish was spoken by three quarters of the world’s Jews — a Germanic vernacular, seasoned with Hebrew, Slavic and Romance vocabulary, that bridged polyglot Jewish communities in Central and Eastern Europe and followed them to the far corners of the diaspora.—
Andrew Silow-Carroll,
Sun Sentinel,
9 June 2025
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To invoke a cliche, the movie teaches you how to watch it, establishing a visual language early and hammering it often.—
Paul A. Thompson,
Pitchfork,
20 June 2025
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There were also issues among people who speak a language other than English.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
20 June 2025
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“Slang.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slang. Accessed 27 Jun. 2025.
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