vocabularies

plural of vocabulary

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Recent Examples of vocabularies Yet a 2023 Stanford study said that Pangram was biased against non-native English speakers, who might have more limited vocabularies, and many AI researchers contend that such detectors are unreliable. Cameron Pugh, Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2026 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vocabularies
Noun
  • On the edges of the empire, speakers of Germanic dialects, such as the Goths and Vandals, frequently clashed with the Romans, eventually contributing to the fragmentation of the empire.
    Scott Spires, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Sep. 2026
  • What used to be two entirely separate compliance projects is starting to look like two dialects of the same emerging language.
    Abdelahhad Barbour, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The effort to improve access to AI in more languages has drawn roughly 60 participants, the Gates Foundation said on Monday.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026
  • The Gates Foundation is committing at least $1 billion globally to AI development over the next two years with funding focused on education, making AI work across more languages and local contexts, as well as in health, and agriculture.
    Yinka Adegoke, semafor.com, 21 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • That requires someone who can teach those ideas and terminologies to players who learn in different ways and at different speeds.
    David Aldridge, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Cinema is, after all, a language, and Belgian filmmakers come from a country built on the need to understand language as a bridge—between its regions, its people, and its idioms.
    Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 11 Sep. 2026
  • There are plenty of idioms to describe Andrean outside hitter Aleece Ehler’s freshman season.
    Noah Poser, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Mesh on the tongues ensures their breathability, and the simple off-white and black combination will be a breeze to style.
    Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 17 Sep. 2026
  • As the bullying escalates and tensions boil over, tongues loosen, forcing the truth out into the open.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 18 Aug. 2026

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“Vocabularies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vocabularies. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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