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Luxe-maxxing influencers drink all this up, of course, as the lingua franca of social media influence is often wealth culture FOMO.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Lego’s effectiveness as a visual lingua franca must be both a point of pride for The Lego Group and, at times, its bane.
From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2026
His Russian has improved in prison, where it is a lingua franca among the inmates.
From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026
Sport was the exception to the rule that all things American were the world’s cultural lingua franca.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2025
The songs and sounds they’ve absorbed are part of western musical style, and are now part of the musical lingua franca or the music that is “normal” for them.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
Reminded that technically the war was over for Russia, Kisselev confessed a "lapsus linguae."
From Time Magazine Archive
Allowing a good deal for accident, and also for the fancies of the conditores linguae Graecae, there is an element of which he is unable to give an account.
From Cratylus by Benjamin Jowett
In his reply, Mr. Van Buren made his only known lapsus linguae by addressing them as the "Democratic corps."
From Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Benjamin Perley Poore
The poems ascribed to him possess great spirit, and prove that he was, as Giraldus terms him, "linguae dicacis," in its best sense.
From The itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales by Giraldus Cambrensis
"A lapsus linguae?" one guest cries, "A pun!" another straight replies.
From The Canadian Elocutionist by Anna Kelsey Howard
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