jargon

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Julie Jargon is the Family & Tech columnist at The Wall Street Journal, writing weekly about the impact of technology on family life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026

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

Spanish words, especially those relating to horses or mules and their equipments, have of late come into general use in Oregon, owing to intercourse with California, but they form no part of the Jargon.

From Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, or, Trade Language of Oregon by Gibbs, George