nomenclature

Example Sentences

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Too bad about the clunky nomenclature, I mused.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

But as his nomenclature has become longer, the number of soldiers assembled for inspection has shrunk each year with embattled forces deployed to frontlines elsewhere.

From Barron's • Dec. 23, 2025

Following California’s lead and aiming to make the map less confusing, Oregon also changed its nomenclature.

From Salon • Aug. 8, 2025

Though dramatic in nomenclature, a bomb cyclone is a low pressure system found north of the tropics and south of the Arctic that deepens, or intensifies, very rapidly over a 24-hour period.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2024

Taxonomy and nomenclature were, for him, merely means to an end.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee