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"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
The structure and vocabulary — and sometimes the em-dashes — are giveaways.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Warm up those brain muscles with our daily quiz, which tests the limits of your vocabulary.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026
He apprenticed in Paris with Constantin Brancusi—who had briefly assisted Auguste Rodin—absorbing a sculptural vocabulary grounded in direct carving and essential form.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
“Class, I have an important announcement. We’re having a surprise visitor this morning, before our party. So there’ll be no vocabulary test today.”
From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney
She was seeing many children under “balanced literacy” lessons slip through the cracks — especially those with limited vocabularies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025
In totalitarian regimes, censored vocabularies create the illusion of consensus and the impossibility of dissent.
From Salon ● May 3, 2025
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
"As the vocabulary grows, the number of different vocabularies that you could move to is increasingly constrained."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 2024
We've searched our vocabularies for the name of the wood and settled on mahogany.
From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour
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