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Breathing life into the liberty-virtue synthesis might require relinquishing the vocabulary of fusionism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
There was no correct vocabulary for what we were doing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 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
They borrow the vocabulary of that relationship — we remember you; we know your favorites; we missed you — while removing the reciprocal part entirely.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
After all the compliments I had received on my improved vocabulary, it seemed prudent to lie low and keep my mouth shut.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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
The researchers focused on the proportion of shape-based nouns in children's initial vocabularies.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2024
The works by Dennis are so faithful to existing vocabularies of infrastructure that they defy classification as art objects.
From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 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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