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When they do this often enough, the borrowed word "becomes part of their vocabulary", OED said.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2025

The borrowed word democracy has since been assimilated into Burmese and is even in the name of the main opposition party, the National League for Democracy.

From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2015

Or was this a reflection of plyuralizm, a borrowed word slipping awkwardly off Russian tongues.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Ulli" is not a borrowed word, but the genuine Aztec name for India-rubber, which was used to make playing-balls with, long before the time of Columbus.

From Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern by Tylor, Edward Burnett

Reiter was confused with, and supplanted by, this borrowed word Reuter, which was taken to mean rider, and we find the cavalry called Reuterei well into the eighteenth century.

From The Romance of Names by Weekley, Ernest




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