vernacularism

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Noun
  • Cut to a decade later and the co-collaborators have returned to prove that third time’s the charm, with a new furniture and decor capsule merging European modernism with relaxed California living.
    Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 25 Sep. 2025
  • One of the big themes in the show is humanizing modernism through what is happening during this time.
    Duante Beddingfield, Freep.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • What started out as an advertising slogan for Apple more than 15 years ago has morphed into somewhat of a modern day colloquialism: There should be an app for that.
    Katherine Fung, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
  • This could involve helping systems learn colloquialisms and proper usages of terms.
    Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Germany teaches the Holocaust without euphemism, South Africa memorializes apartheid, and Rwanda preserves memory of genocide — nations gain respect by confronting their darkest chapters, not avoiding them.
    Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Sometimes, this stems from their opinion that the supposedly tactful replacements for the R-word are equally if not more offensive — a classic example of the euphemism treadmill in practice.
    Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The Saint-Gaudens design of Lady Liberty with torch and olive branch is arguably the most iconic US coinage ever struck, with the eagle on the reverse a masterstroke of neoclassical style.
    Clem Chambers, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • There were a few coinages in the script, but 90 percent of the language is real.
    Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Written over a period of seventeen years, the novel was composed in an idiosyncratic style that blended standard English with neologisms and puns in multiple languages.
    Paul Slovak September 16, Literary Hub, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Podcasts, newsletters, and Words of the Year have popularized neologisms, etymologies, and usage trends.
    Stefan Fatsis, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • And comparing more recent historic forms of English and Sranan to get at centuries-old linguistic forms isn’t ironclad, Creanza pointed out.
    Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2018
Noun
  • For instance, people, a French loanword, may be spelled peple, pepill, poeple, or poepul.
    Big Think, Big Think, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The newest dictionary additions include loanwords from Southeast Asia, South Africa and Ireland.
    Peter Guo, NBC news, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Financial Affairs Committee approved the term sheet, which outlines tax incremental financing details, in March 2025.
    Bridget Fogarty, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • While streaming revolutionized the television industry by changing the way audiences consume content, the fall season still reigns supreme in terms of premieres.
    Essence, Essence, 2 Oct. 2025
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“Vernacularism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vernacularism. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.

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