idiomatic
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“Rocket science is an idiomatic expression for extreme technological difficulty,” Musk said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
His posts on X in idiomatic American English have garnered wide attention and raised questions over who is actually writing them, given Ghalibaf is not known to be a fluent English speaker.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
I was confident I was being scammed in some way but the idiomatic language and contextual knowledge of Westminster was unsettling.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2024
“Signing is very idiomatic, it’s conveying concepts with your face and hands, so we ended up changing the script,” Barclay says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2023
In fact, gerunds with unmarked subjects were the historically earlier form, have long been used by the language’s best writers, and are perfectly idiomatic.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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