lexicon

Digital technology has long been fertile ground for new English idioms, with terms such as “reboot,” “bandwidth” and “downtime” entering the popular lexicon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Over the past decade, the concept of “buckets” has entered the investment-adviser lexicon.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

Textualism requires courts to read words in their statutory setting, not as isolated entries in a lexicon.

From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026

He made Danson’s Sam Malone and Long’s Diane Chambers part of our cultural lexicon by styling them as the ultimate will-they-or-won’t-they couple.

From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026

I would look up a word in the lexicon only to forget it when I turned to write it down; my noun cases, my verb forms, had left me utterly.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker and Fed Governors Christopher Waller and Philip Jefferson in recent weeks have introduced ‘skip’ and ‘skipping’ into Fed-watchers’ lexicons.

From Reuters ● Jun. 7, 2023

Because Rowling is a brilliant and beloved storyteller who is astonishingly good at entering lexicons, manipulating language and telling fantasy stories.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2023

If there is one impulse that unites Feinstein’s oeuvre, it is perhaps this desire to tap into shared lexicons.

From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2022

Very quickly, Robot learned that humans used slang, dialects, sociolects, and undocumented lexicons.

From Slate ● Dec. 29, 2018

This appeared in “The Dictionary of Sir Thomas Elyot, 1535,” a folio, which laid the foundation of our future lexicons, “declaring Latin by English,” as Elyot describes his own labour.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli