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Adjective
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Brain rot is a slang term to describe content that has little to no artistic, educational or substantive value, according to KnowYourMeme.—
Diana Leyva,
Nashville Tennessean,
24 Oct. 2025 -
Neither slang experts nor the OED know.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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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
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And in general, the A.I. bots were useful for sharpening prose and cleaning up clunky, ungrammatical sentences.—
Brian X. Chen,
New York Times,
1 Feb. 2023
Adjective
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The people who looked Indigenous were the uneducated characters, the cartoon characters.—
Abbey White,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Oct. 2025
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This Court finds that Respondent’s lack of candor on his I-485 was not an oversight by an uninformed, uneducated applicant.—
Filip Timotija,
The Hill,
18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The housing is for farmworkers aged 55 and up, many of whom live in substandard or cramped conditions due to their income.—
Ryan Macasero,
Mercury News,
18 Oct. 2025
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Either way, these tech vendors had established a history of getting customers to adopt substandard technology in order to close a deal.—
Chris Degnan,
Fortune,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Slangy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slangy. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.
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