argot
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In the argot of A.I. engineers, a program “hallucinates” when it generates falsehoods.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2022
Characters speak in modern slang, Shakespearean verse, ’80s pop lyrics and that timeless argot of clumsy melodrama.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
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 ● Nov. 7, 2022
Regardless of the language, the United Nations has its own argot, too.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2022
Every human pastime—music, cooking, sports, art, theoretical physics—develops an argot to spare its enthusiasts from having to say or type a long-winded description every time they refer to a familiar concept in each other’s company.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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Melding the argots of Silicon Valley and self-care, Joyous delivers treatment primarily by text message, replete with exclamation points and emojis.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2023
Here are some argots peculiar to their groups.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 8, 2016
Like many argots, the unique vernacular enhances CrossFit’s mystique and sense of being a special, exclusive community.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 8, 2016
Include argots – the characteristic language of a particular group – and that number climbs ginormously.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 8, 2016
Paris he knew as you and I know the palms of our hands, and he could converse with the precision of the native-born in any one of the city's several odd argots.
From The Lone Wolf A Melodrama by Vance, Louis Joseph
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