vocabularies

plural of vocabulary

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Recent Examples of vocabularies This gap can help explain why some children’s vocabularies grow so much faster than others. Michelle Kearney, The Conversation, 7 July 2026 Do the formal vocabularies that are supposed to encode my field actually capture how the people in it think? John Drake, Forbes.com, 30 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 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 The Moxley case has effectively been told three times across three different American vocabularies. Kate Casey, Vanity Fair, 2 June 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 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 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
  • Unlike the brighter, more melodic style often associated with Austria and the Tyrol region, Swiss yodeling is slower and more melancholic — an emotionally nuanced tradition rooted in distinct regional dialects.
    Jez Fielder, Fortune, 30 June 2026
  • Unlike the brighter, more melodic style often associated with Austria and the Tyrol region, Swiss yodeling is slower and more melancholic — an emotionally nuanced tradition rooted in distinct regional dialects.
    ABC News, ABC News, 29 June 2026
Noun
  • Minionese blends fragments of half a dozen languages, English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, and others, so the dialogue would feel familiar to audiences everywhere rather than tied to any one country.
    David Deal, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
  • They can also be used for de-aging characters, creating performances in different languages, or preserving the voice or likeness of an actor whose health is deteriorating, as was the case with CAA client Eric Dane.
    Joy Press, Vanity Fair, 6 July 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
  • Out of love for different sound systems, different writing systems, different grammars, different sets of concepts, different idioms, different ways of seeing the world.
    Douglas Hofstadter, Time, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • The sides went back and forth, trading songs in their native tongues, and friendly taunts in English.
    Albert Samaha, New Yorker, 6 July 2026
  • By flicking their tongues, snakes can detect the scent trails left by potential prey, such as rodents or birds, and accurately track and capture them even in the dark or in complex environments.
    Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 July 2026

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