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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
Drawing on contemporary color standards and systems such as Munsell’s, he set out to do something deceptively difficult: translate the scientific lexicon into terms everyday readers could understand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
He opened his lexicon and began to search for his place.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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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
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
One project that has seen particular growth during the pandemic has been talking dictionaries, open-source lexicons that feature audio entries.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2020
Groups of people form their own private lexicons because coded language is exclusive, exciting and defiant.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 8, 2016
Clement C. Moore was a professor in the General Theological Seminary, and while there compiled the first Greek and Hebrew lexicons ever published in this country.
From Literary New York Its Landmarks and Associations by Charles Hemstreet
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