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Adjective
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The single-barrel bourbon's name reflects a meme devoted to a slang phrase for highly competitive individuals, especially athletes.—
Mike Snider,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2026 -
That practice was discarded in 1982, but the expression is still slang for a thrilling experience.—
Marla Jo Fisher,
Oc Register,
26 Mar. 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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At the age of 10, Elizabeth would see first hand what would happen when her mother, an uneducated woman with six children, would have to support herself on her own.—
Marcy Thompson,
Scientific American,
16 Apr. 2026
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Words with letters dropped off the end or entire phrases strung together to form new words were seen as improper speech of the uneducated and poor.—
Moriah Humiston,
NBC news,
3 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The charges alleged Mulholland lacked appropriate boundaries toward patients while employed at a women's medical clinic that provided substandard care.—
Janelle Griffith,
PEOPLE,
16 Apr. 2026
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Many were found to be substandard, overpriced or were not built at all.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 Apr. 2026
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“Slangy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slangy. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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