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Whether parliament's new lexicon endures remains to be seen.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Over the past decade, the concept of “buckets” has entered the investment-adviser lexicon.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
Textualism requires courts to read words in their statutory setting, not as isolated entries in a lexicon.
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026
If you’re chronically online like me, you’ve probably come across a slang-suffix that’s become part of the lexicon despite not being formally added to a dictionary — yet.
From Salon ● May 7, 2026
The next day, Kansas City AP bureau chief Ed Stanley inserted the phrase “the dust bowl” into a wire service account of the devastation, and a new term entered the American lexicon.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker and Fed Governors Christopher Waller and Philip Jefferson in recent weeks have introduced ‘skip’ and ‘skipping’ into Fed-watchers’ lexicons.
From Reuters ● Jun. 7, 2023
If there is one impulse that unites Feinstein’s oeuvre, it is perhaps this desire to tap into shared lexicons.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2022
The message is followed by one of the many Pengsoo-specific slang terms that have entered viewers’ lexicons: “Peng-love-you.”
From The Guardian ● Dec. 3, 2020
Very quickly, Robot learned that humans used slang, dialects, sociolects, and undocumented lexicons.
From Slate ● Dec. 29, 2018
They weighed two hundred and twenty pounds apiece and were eligible to the All-American team, but you couldn't make the human lexicons look at it that way.
From At Good Old Siwash by George Fitch
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