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But borrowing a generation's vocabulary, she argues, is easier than engaging with the frustrations that produced it.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
His vocabulary appears boundless, as does his apparent love for the city he grew up in, where he still lives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
The structure and vocabulary — and sometimes the em-dashes — are giveaways.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
While you might know the lingo that describes what’s happening on the field, the salary-cap gain has a vocabulary all its own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
No, I know a better vocabulary word: scowled.
From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney
In totalitarian regimes, censored vocabularies create the illusion of consensus and the impossibility of dissent.
From Salon ● May 3, 2025
Scientists tried using sign language to converse with apes and trained parrots to deploy growing English vocabularies.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2024
Toossi’s script handles this duality elegantly: The actors speak unaccented, colloquial English when they’re speaking Farsi; when they’re speaking English, their vocabularies scale back, and syntax becomes stilted, indefinite articles get forgotten.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
Past research has shown that efficient color vocabularies are constrained both by how people perceive colors and by how much they want or need to communicate about a given color.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 2024
They were emotional expressions of inarticulate people with small vocabularies; they made a kind of dialect.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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