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the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field
scientific vocabulary
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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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Hildara Araya, Parents, 20 Dec. 2025
While leaning on Robbins’ style for its dance interludes — kudos to choreographer Maija Garcia for deftly capturing his movement vocabulary and the performers for so ably executing it — the script’s structure seems more an homage to Tennessee Williams.
—Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 20 Dec. 2025
Advertisement Health education campaigns adopted this vocabulary, urging Americans to adopt better habits to boost their well-being.
—Time, 19 Dec. 2025
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—Editors Of Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 16 Dec. 2025
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Hildara Araya, Parents, 20 Dec. 2025
While leaning on Robbins’ style for its dance interludes — kudos to choreographer Maija Garcia for deftly capturing his movement vocabulary and the performers for so ably executing it — the script’s structure seems more an homage to Tennessee Williams.
—Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 20 Dec. 2025
Advertisement Health education campaigns adopted this vocabulary, urging Americans to adopt better habits to boost their well-being.
—Time, 19 Dec. 2025
Want to understand the basic vocabulary of weed?
—Editors Of Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 16 Dec. 2025
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Which means that their terminology won't disappear anytime soon.—
Mariyam Muhammad,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
30 Dec. 2025
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This Trumpian newspeak about Germany — to use George Orwell’s term for the distorted terminology of authoritarians — reveals an indifference to (or ignorance of) history that endangers not only Europe but the United States.—
Trudy Rubin,
Mercury News,
20 Dec. 2025
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Nationally, median early career wages range from $40,000 for a foreign language degree to $80,000 for a computer science degree, according to an analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.—
Marissa Meador,
IndyStar,
9 Jan. 2026
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Administration officials have cut that time roughly in half, partly by eliminating Spanish-language courses.—
Meredith Kile,
PEOPLE,
8 Jan. 2026
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Many rank-and-file enlistees were also recent immigrants, and patriot regiments hummed with a cacophony of different tongues, accents, and dialects throughout the war.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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To embody the Like a Rolling Stone singer, the actor trained extensively, including five years of preparation, to learn to sing as well as play guitar and harmonica, and to work with dialect and movement coaches to make his performance feel authentic.—
Lexi Carson,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Nov. 2025
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Heather is accused of hiding behind her humor, Lisa of hiding behind materialistic things, and Angie of hiding behind her sharp tongue, for example.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
7 Jan. 2026
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After turning the lock with his teeth and tongue, Dawson pushes open the front door and walks out into the night.—
Kelli Bender,
PEOPLE,
7 Jan. 2026
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The speed at which Gen Alpha has been churning out new, often nonsensical, slang has been fast and furious throughout 2025.—
Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal,
Parents,
31 Dec. 2025
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What other slang does Gen Alpha use?—
Mariyam Muhammad,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
30 Dec. 2025
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There’s this Douglas Adams joke that in no language is there the idiom as pretty as an airport.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Jan. 2026
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As a substitute, the board selected local architect William Pereira, who, never fully at ease with a modernist idiom, hewed to the middlebrow tastes and conservative politics of California’s philanthropic parvenus.—
Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann,
Artforum,
1 Jan. 2026
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“Vocabulary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vocabulary. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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