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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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Coogler wanted to ensure that neither of those characters would turn into caricatures, and had Jordan work with a dialect coach to aid in that and even asked twin filmmakers Logan and Noah Miller to consult on the film, helping him on the screenplay too.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
16 Apr. 2025
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Currently, African languages and dialects are underrepresented due to a lack of data and there are often biases in training data, such as facial recognition systems that struggle with darker skin tones.—
Nell Lewis,
CNN Money,
3 Apr. 2025
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Pope Francis preached the same gospel in different language.—
John Hope Bryant,
Time,
21 Apr. 2025
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Subtitles are easy to add to film, but, for the most part, they were used only when actors and audiences spoke different languages.—
David Owen,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 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 4 May. 2025.
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