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the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field
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Recent Examples of terminology
Actors had to wear about 50 pounds of tactical gear during shoots, carry each other for two miles on stretchers and master radio etiquette, weapons handling, and military terminology.
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Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 10 Apr. 2025
Through their own initiatives, these activists have secured equal pay for Paralympic athletes and changed discriminatory terminology in Major League Baseball.
—Jay Ruderman, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2025
Gruden's intimate knowledge of Oakland's personnel, terminology, and tendencies gave the Buccaneers defense a substantial advantage.
—Omaid Homayun, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
So, this very abstract subject has now become very practical in some ways, and lots of people have heard the terminology algorithm, so, what even is an algorithm?
—Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025
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Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 10 Apr. 2025
Through their own initiatives, these activists have secured equal pay for Paralympic athletes and changed discriminatory terminology in Major League Baseball.
—Jay Ruderman, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2025
Gruden's intimate knowledge of Oakland's personnel, terminology, and tendencies gave the Buccaneers defense a substantial advantage.
—Omaid Homayun, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
So, this very abstract subject has now become very practical in some ways, and lots of people have heard the terminology algorithm, so, what even is an algorithm?
—Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for terminology
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How to clean jewelry, then, should be an easily answerable and well-attended to question within your fashion vocabulary.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
25 Apr. 2025
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According to lead researcher Federico Rossano, this marks just the beginning of exploring canine vocabulary, with future studies aiming to delve into more abstract concepts to better understand dog cognition and communication.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
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The versatility in dialects in these tracks—from Moroccan to Khaleeji Arabic—reflects his fluency, not just linguistically but musically, across several continents.—
Maha ElNabawi,
Billboard,
29 Apr. 2025
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The technology differentiated among different dialects in Lebanon to gauge public reaction, helping Israel to assess if there was public pressure for a counterstrike.—
Sheera Frenkel,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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According to the federal government, California is home to the largest number of international students, and the most popular majors among international students are computer science, language, and business administration and management.—
Jennifer Borresen,
USA Today,
4 May 2025
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In addition to sculpture and installation, Nkanga is also a poet; a role that deepens her intuitive, layered relationship to language and form.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
3 May 2025
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Image At times, the chatbot could not identify some modern slang terms and words that were transliterated from English to Arabic, two officers said.—
Sheera Frenkel,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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The right tool should grasp regional differences, slang and feelings to place ads effectively.—
Tony Gonzalez,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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The semantic layer maps business-level definitions, key performance indicators (KPIs) and organizational corporate jargon to data fields.—
Artyom Keydunov,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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Many profiles contain the same jargon and buzzwords that potential connections see dozens of times daily.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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Even names, idioms, and cultural references are sometimes exoticized or reduced to caricatures, reinforcing narrow or misleading representations.—
Diana Spehar,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
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At that time, writers like Ashbery and Frank O’Hara were helping to establish a new idiom in American poetry, something serious without self-seriousness: the new poetry was open to the city’s rhythms, irreverent but tender—and clearly, if not openly, gay.—
David S. Wallace,
The New Yorker,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Terminology.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/terminology. Accessed 9 May. 2025.
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