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Sean “Jack” Murphy has been choreographing for “Bridgerton” since the beginning, crafting the physical vocabulary of the characters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Wells Fargo bank analyst Mike Mayo called the vocabulary Moynihan uses on calls an “intellectual flex” and said it was better to keep it simple.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
A chance to flex your big vocabulary: Do you know which activity a pugilist engages in?
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
McDonald’s becomes not merely something Trump eats or campaigns beside, but part of the visual vocabulary through which people understand him.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
The word genocide shares its root with gene—and for good reason: the Nazis used the vocabulary of genes and genetics to launch, justify, and sustain their agenda.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
She was seeing many children under “balanced literacy” lessons slip through the cracks — especially those with limited vocabularies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025
In totalitarian regimes, censored vocabularies create the illusion of consensus and the impossibility of dissent.
From Salon ● May 3, 2025
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
He was able to combine the rich ornamental vocabularies of various Classical, Romanesque, Moorish, Gothic and Renaissance styles into successful residential architecture that was grand in scale yet comfortable to live in.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2023
We've searched our vocabularies for the name of the wood and settled on mahogany.
From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour
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