vocabularies

plural of vocabulary

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Recent Examples of vocabularies Chinese law schools have accordingly placed greater weight on teaching Chinese students to argue using the vocabularies of foreign legal systems. Mark Jia, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2026 These systems aim to connect common vocabularies, graphs, data catalogs and enterprise metadata into one coherent semantic layer. Harini Gopalakrishnan, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026 This gap can help explain why some children’s vocabularies grow so much faster than others. Michelle Kearney, The Conversation, 7 July 2026 But more variations of Austronesian languages have been identified in Taiwan, accompanied with more intricate grammatical structures and expansive vocabularies, which has provided insights for linguists. Wayne Chang, CNN Money, 17 June 2026 The Moxley case has effectively been told three times across three different American vocabularies. Kate Casey, Vanity Fair, 2 June 2026 By the end of the learning unit, Burton said growth in the children could be seen as their vocabularies expanded to using words such as thermometer, blood pressure and punctured. Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 30 Apr. 2026 Shallow, misogynistic speech has seeped into the daily vocabularies of many, suggesting the toxic, anti-woman values that have long inspired such rhetoric are once again calcifying into a widespread and serious problem. Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 28 Apr. 2026 In the October 2025 study that followed families over time, children who spent more time with digital media at age 2 tended to have smaller vocabularies at age 3, regardless of the child’s temperament or the caregiver’s personality traits. Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 2 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vocabularies
Noun
  • Sometimes the problem is not translation at all, but meanings that shift between two dialects of the same language.
    Karen Stollznow, The Conversation, 23 July 2026
  • Korea and China just demonstrated, in their very different dialects, that friction can be deliberately put back.
    Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Noun
  • Sadhguru is also a bestselling author whose videos stream in 35 languages on social media.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The Bible is widely read and loved in spite of the fact that most people don’t speak any of the languages in which it was originally written.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • On the one hand, the translation serves as a source for the idioms of nineteenth-century English; on the other, as evidence of the ideas that the translator held about a Colombian woman writer.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 July 2026
  • The film’s look is inspired by ink wash paintings and wood blocks, moving fluidly between different visual idioms.
    Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 1 July 2026
Noun
  • The women in the WNBA should no more be required to hold their tongues than the men who play in the NBA.
    Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2026
  • In the margin, staghounds clean their paws with oiled tongues.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2026

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