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Adjective
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In retail, a booster is slang for a professional shoplifter, one who doesn’t steal for personal use but in bulk for resale.—
Stephen Schaefer,
Boston Herald,
19 May 2026 -
Alongside organist Ståle Storløkken and drummer Ole Mofjell, the Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns (the third word a slang term for Norwegians) form a groove that teeters toward explosiveness without ever reaching it.—
Joshua Minsoo Kim,
Pitchfork,
24 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The notes were vintage O’Keeffe—brief, vivid, enlightening, and, yes, often ungrammatical, but brilliantly so.—
Calvin Tomkins,
New Yorker,
15 Dec. 2025
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But if language exemplifies the human capacity for internalizing grammatical conventions, then my moment of rule-breaking does not in fact expose some ungrammatical first nature.—
Harmon Siegel,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Stolen bases, once treated as a reckless relic of the uneducated past, are at levels not seen since the freewheeling 1980s.—
Chad Jennings,
New York Times,
21 May 2026
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The animals help Tim, who proves uneducated in the methods of deduction, investigate a series of local suspects portrayed by Molly Gordon, Hong Chau, Emma Thompson, Kobna Holbrook-Smith, Nicholas Galitzine, Tosin Cole and Conleth Hill, among others.—
Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
7 May 2026
Adjective
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Despite to this day being a thriving port city and with so many people so close to the sea, Naples has plenty of substandard fish restaurants.—
Jamie Timson,
TheWeek,
27 May 2026
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The Department of Homeland Security has denied allegations of substandard conditions.—
Jesse Zanger,
CBS News,
27 May 2026
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“Slangy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slangy. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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