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the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field
the terminology favored by sportscasters medical terminology that can be hard for the patient to understand
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Recent Examples of terminology
Educational twists are included, as Joe and the athletes explain sports terminology and lingo.
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R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Continue reading … WOKENESS EXPOSED – CDC official's resignation raises eyebrows with pronouns and 'pregnant people' terminology.
—FOXNews.com, 29 Aug. 2025
In later litigation in Washington, a federal judge allowed certain claims to proceed, finding that a reasonable consumer could be misled by the terminology.
—Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
This may be a function of terminology.
—Stephanie Murray, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
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R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Continue reading … WOKENESS EXPOSED – CDC official's resignation raises eyebrows with pronouns and 'pregnant people' terminology.
—FOXNews.com, 29 Aug. 2025
In later litigation in Washington, a federal judge allowed certain claims to proceed, finding that a reasonable consumer could be misled by the terminology.
—Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
This may be a function of terminology.
—Stephanie Murray, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for terminology
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Hiromu Yakura, a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, noticed differences in his own vocabulary about a year after ChatGPT debuted in late 2022.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
9 Sep. 2025
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Babbel isn’t like those free apps that flood you with random vocabulary.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
7 Sep. 2025
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It is written in an almost stream-of-consciousness style, rather like someone reluctantly dredging up their memories, with random thoughts interrupting the narrative, long sentences sometimes running to over a page, little punctuation, and peppered with Kobe dialect.—
Ginny Tapley Takemori
September 4,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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The Cajun dialect is a very particular one.—
Zack Sharf,
Variety,
2 Sep. 2025
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The expansion will also include more language support, with plans to increase access to consulting and capital assistance in Spanish and Marshallese, according to an organization news release.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
11 Sep. 2025
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There is no time limit on how long such consultations could take, and experts say the language is flexible enough to allow each member to decide how far to go in responding to armed aggression against another.—
Matt Spetalnick,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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But there’s a whole lot of other slang spoken around here.—
Wendy Wisner,
Parents,
8 Sep. 2025
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But first, the deeper history and roots of certain slang terms A number of phrases that are labeled as Gen Z lingo or internet slang today are derived from Black and drag cultures.—
Mia Thurow,
jsonline.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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In a field often crowded with jargon and hype, that approach is refreshing.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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Remove any jargon or unnecessary complexity.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Nonnas There's a saying that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, and Joe Scaravella (Vince Vaughn) of 2025's Nonnas is the perfect depiction of the idiom.—
Jacqueline Weiss,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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Because the construction is a natural and graceful part of our English idiom.—
Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Aug. 2025
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“Terminology.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/terminology. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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