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Rosales is aware that the world has its eyes on L.A. and that people everywhere are learning the cultural vernacular improvised by Cali’s brown folks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
In many ways, China’s vernacular taste in automotive design codified the excesses of the West and doubled down upon them, propelled by the status-signaling anxieties of rising Chinese affluence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
The excitement comes with its own vernacular, as “powder hounds” hit the slopes, looking for “fresh tracks” and “chasing pow.”
From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2026
She owned a copy of Tyndale’s New Testament and backed appointees to the court who supported the idea of a vernacular Bible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
He talked to virtually no one but his horses, and then only in their vernacular of small gestures and soft sounds.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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“People at the top spoke a different language, often Latin, and populations would speak local vernaculars, which were not standardized.”
From Slate ● Jul. 4, 2026
This media can’t be boring or overly wonky — it must speak in popular vernaculars with style and panache.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2025
She is intimate with its maps and vernaculars, and the way summer settles hard on the north-central plains along the Brazos River south of Horseshoe Bend near Granbury.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2024
The following year, they finished their first opus in New York and realized their respective musical vernaculars and gifts produced something starkly different when combined.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2021
As in most Indo-Aryan vernaculars an a after an accented syllable is very lightly pronounced, and is here represented by a small a above the line.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
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