argot

Example Sentences

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In the argot of the credit bureaus, tradelines are just another word for all the accounts listed on a credit report — credit cards, loans and mortgages are all tradelines.

From New York Times

But even here — under a tangle of rope and lace, designed by Rajha Shakiry, that seems to literalize the World Wide Web — the argot of social media invades.

From New York Times

In the argot of A.I. engineers, a program “hallucinates” when it generates falsehoods.

From New York Times

Characters speak in modern slang, Shakespearean verse, ’80s pop lyrics and that timeless argot of clumsy melodrama.

From Los Angeles Times

That’s at work here, too — an effort to gather up the fragments of a woman’s life and argot and make of it something whole.

From New York Times