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McDonald’s becomes not merely something Trump eats or campaigns beside, but part of the visual vocabulary through which people understand him.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
"The available inscriptions allow us to understand it up to a certain point, but we lack vocabulary and texts," he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
"It's so important because by reading, they're still engaging their brain so they can go back to school in September, already having vocabulary in them."
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
While you might know the lingo that describes what’s happening on the field, the salary-cap gain has a vocabulary all its own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Plus, I have a strong vocabulary and could have probably selected a nicer word for her, though I doubt I could have chosen a more accurate one.
From "Because of Mr. Terupt" by Rob Buyea
In totalitarian regimes, censored vocabularies create the illusion of consensus and the impossibility of dissent.
From Salon ● May 3, 2025
Scientists tried using sign language to converse with apes and trained parrots to deploy growing English vocabularies.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2024
Toossi’s script handles this duality elegantly: The actors speak unaccented, colloquial English when they’re speaking Farsi; when they’re speaking English, their vocabularies scale back, and syntax becomes stilted, indefinite articles get forgotten.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
On average, children with several ear infections before three years of age had smaller vocabularies and a harder time matching similar sounding words than children with few or no ear infections.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 3, 2024
“I move we officially ban the word sorry from our vocabularies while we’re here.”
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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