lexicon

Example Sentences

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The term quickly spread beyond the ranks of the police officers who coined it, with “Black Friday” entering the lexicon in the early 1960s.

From Barron's

But nothing else is really in the popular lexicon that I'm aware of.

From Salon

This simple three-word phrase, lifted from Australia, has already become part of the political lexicon.

From BBC

When I first came to this newspaper — when it was still, mostly, a newspaper — the phrases “streaming platform,” “cinematic universe” and “social media” were not part of the general lexicon.

From New York Times

He seemed especially offended by instances in which officers called Black people “monkeys,” “animal” and “boy” — vile disparagements straight out of the Jim Crow lexicon.

From Washington Post