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[lek-si-kon, -kuhn] / ˈlɛk sɪˌkɒn, -kən /


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"This beautiful developmental transition is completely disrupted in Alzheimer's disease by pathological processes that mess with episodic memory and interfere with circuits that allow you to think about your own life, lexicon, and vocabulary."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

The drink menu was full of references to the community’s internal lexicon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Whether parliament's new lexicon endures remains to be seen.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

It was like they were constantly speaking two different languages, each trying to convince the other in an alien lexicon.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

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

All these different lexicons are talking and there’s a dialogue there.

From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2022

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

From Slate ● Dec. 29, 2018

Groups of people form their own private lexicons because coded language is exclusive, exciting and defiant.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 8, 2016

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


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