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This neologism challenge is more restrictive than our Spelling Bee contest, whose results run today, since you can’t use a single “tile” more than once.
STYLE CONVERSATIONAL WEEK 1428: RETURN OF THE SEVENPAT MYERSMARCH 18, 2021WASHINGTON POSTMany neologisms are portmanteaux, terms that combine two existing words.
STYLE CONVERSATIONAL WEEK 1422: UDON WANT TO MISS THESE NEOLOGISMSPAT MYERSFEBRUARY 4, 2021WASHINGTON POSTRaniere made a big deal about patenting it, and spun wonky neologisms that obscured rather than explained what he was doing.
HBO’S NEW SEX CULT DOC HAS BIG LESSONS FOR INVESTORSDZANEMORRISSEPTEMBER 2, 2020FORTUNERossetti's "Yester-year" moreover, is an absurd and affected neologism; "Antan" is an excellent and living French word.
AVRILH. BELLOCIn this one ordinary speech seemed to have been insufficient to describe the blotch, and he had to resort to a neologism.
STUDIES IN FORENSIC PSYCHIATRYBERNARD GLUECKBut it observed a very high standard of classical English, a little intolerant of neologism, but not stiff nor jejune.
A HISTORY OF NINETEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE (1780-1895)GEORGE SAINTSBURYThe locution of which we have made use—passed to the state of—has been condemned as a neologism by M. Royer Collard.
LES MISRABLESVICTOR HUGOBut if dictionaries are to be the arbiters of language, in which of them shall we find neologism?
MEMOIR, CORRESPONDENCE, AND MISCELLANIES, FROM THE PAPERS OF THOMAS JEFFERSONTHOMAS JEFFERSONThe latter (the word administration used as a verb) is the only instance of neologism I ever observed in Mr. Madison.
INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN AND COURSE OF POLITICAL PARTIES IN THE UNITED STATESMARTIN VAN BURENThis Bohemian vocabulary is the hell of rhetoric and the paradise of neologism.
BOHEMIANS OF THE LATIN QUARTERHENRY MURGERWORDS RELATED TO NEOLOGISM
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- idiom
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- vocabulary
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