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as in dialects
the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field
scientific vocabulary
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as in languages
the stock of words, pronunciation, and grammar used by a people as their basic means of communication
children learn enough of the common vocabulary to make themselves understood by around the age of two
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Recent Examples of vocabularies
Do the formal vocabularies that are supposed to encode my field actually capture how the people in it think?
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John Drake,
Forbes.com,
30 June 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.
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Wayne Chang,
CNN Money,
17 June 2026
The Moxley case has effectively been told three times across three different American vocabularies.
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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.
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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.
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Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
28 Apr. 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.
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Darcel Rockett,
Chicago Tribune,
27 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.
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Miriam Fauzia,
Dallas Morning News,
2 Mar. 2026
The discovery of language skills in great apes — various gorillas and chimps learned substantial vocabularies in sign language or symbols — and that of tool use across the animal kingdom have, over the years, chipped away at the idea that there is any single ingredient that makes humans unique.
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Tom Chivers,
semafor.com,
13 Jan. 2026
John Drake,
Forbes.com,
30 June 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
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.
—
Darcel Rockett,
Chicago Tribune,
27 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
The discovery of language skills in great apes — various gorillas and chimps learned substantial vocabularies in sign language or symbols — and that of tool use across the animal kingdom have, over the years, chipped away at the idea that there is any single ingredient that makes humans unique.
—
Tom Chivers,
semafor.com,
13 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vocabularies
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It is also being distributed internationally and has been translated into French, Spanish, German and three Greenlandic dialects.
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Language is often a reflection of the culture that shapes it, impacting tone, idioms, dialects and even silence across regions.
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In recent years China’s Communist Party has ramped up oversight of religious institutions, rolled back the use of ethnic minority languages in primary, secondary schools and kindergartens.
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Among other things, the council revolutionized the Catholic Church’s relations with other religions and the laity, and allowed Mass to be celebrated in vernacular languages rather than Latin.
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Language is often a reflection of the culture that shapes it, impacting tone, idioms, dialects and even silence across regions.
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Probably because at the time many of the time signatures and chordal progressions that Miles used were over the head of a young guitar player still functioning in the blues and folk idioms.
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The results have often left me highly frustrated, but also have given me indescribable joy at the fact of having absorbed (although only partially, of course) some of the elusive beauty of those marvelous, magical, mysteriously alluring tongues.
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The scene when Emily Blunt speaks in alien tongues was deeply spooky.
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“Vocabularies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vocabularies. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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