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jargon

[jahr-guhn, -gon] / ˈdʒɑr gən, -gɒn /


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In a gripping piece, Julie Jargon delves into the Soelberg case, the latest in a series of wrongful-death suits against OpenAI.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 13, 2025

Jargon, he noticed, can be imbued with pseudo-religious significance.

From Salon • Feb. 15, 2025

Jargon was the enemy, but graduate students dreaming of tenure would have to search elsewhere at the university not to be shut out of the discourse, a word he no doubt would have found lazy.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2023

Jargon can be hard to understand, but even worse are familiar terms that in a scientific context have entirely different meanings.

From Scientific American • Jan. 27, 2023

This was the Jargon and Practice of those Times.

From The Natural History of Chocolate Being a Distinct and Particular Account of the Cocoa-Tree, its Growth and Culture, and the Preparation, Excellent Properties, and Medicinal Vertues of its Fruit by Brookes, R. (Richard), fl. 1721-1763




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