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[voh-kab-yuh-ler-ee] / voʊˈkæb jəˌlɛr i /


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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

More than a century later, the vocabulary has modernized, but the underlying idea has barely budged.

From Salon Aug. 28, 2026

Sean “Jack” Murphy has been choreographing for “Bridgerton” since the beginning, crafting the physical vocabulary of the characters.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2026

Wells Fargo bank analyst Mike Mayo called the vocabulary Moynihan uses on calls an “intellectual flex” and said it was better to keep it simple.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

Recordings also provide inspiration, and lay the groundwork for understanding music’s vocabulary and structure.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

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

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

It looks as though at first Boyle wanted to keep these two sides of his intellectual life, with their different vocabularies, separate.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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