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The cycle has closed with almost insulting neatness: a new intervention, a new moral vocabulary, a new consumer workaround — and Cartman, once again, looking for a way to change without changing very much.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
In addition to field trips, there are also digital teaching resources about the attacks, such as "OOPA's World of Words," an online series of videos to build vocabulary and social literacy for younger readers.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
Ruby Hobbs-Leffler felt things with an intensity that even a smart little girl with a big vocabulary couldn’t put into words.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Moynihan tends to slide in one vocabulary word for each earnings call.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
The word atom, used in the modern sense, first entered scientific vocabulary in John Dalton’s paper in 1808.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
In totalitarian regimes, censored vocabularies create the illusion of consensus and the impossibility of dissent.
From Salon ● May 3, 2025
The brainy birds can learn to recognize colors and shapes, manipulate objects, build large vocabularies and make their needs known at improbably high volumes.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
Past research has shown that efficient color vocabularies are constrained both by how people perceive colors and by how much they want or need to communicate about a given color.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 2024
Educators who supported passage of the law contended that writing by hand helps children learn to read, spell and build their vocabularies in ways that typing does not.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 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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