idiomatic

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Headlined by conductor Marco Armiliato, soprano Lisette Oropesa as the heroine Elvira and tenor Lawrence Brownlee as her beloved Arturo, this was a musically idiomatic and expressive traversal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 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

Fairy tales, idiomatic expressions, warrior tales all amplified human fear, and led to the systematic extermination of wolves across Britain and Europe.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 28, 2023

“Nix verstandt,” said another who had been taunting her in idiomatic English all morning.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith