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
  • And while Hasidic dialects are by far the most spoken among modern Yiddish speakers, opportunities to learn the Hasidic dialect from native speakers like Malowicki are relatively rare.
    ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Google says training across languages, dialects, and different proficiency levels helped the model learn structures shared between sign languages.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Food, France, Family and the Stew that Saved my Soul, Sylvie Bigar explores the world in search of unsung culinary delights and vibrant destinations, armed with three passports and four languages.
    Sylvie Bigar, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • As for the universality of her hypnotic, soulful sound and her dynamic, jazzy mezzo-soprano voice, Kidjo’s singing in five languages (Fon, French, Yorùbá, Gen-Mina and English) has forever been key to the funk, its frankness and her grace.
    A.D. Amorosi, Variety, 18 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
  • As the bullying escalates and tensions boil over, tongues loosen, forcing the truth out into the open.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 18 Aug. 2026
  • 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

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