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terminology

[tur-muh-nol-uh-jee] / ˌtɜr məˈnɒl ə dʒi /


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Her inadvertent gaffes with industry terminology might make her seem silly and out of her depth.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026

To use football terminology, the stock market had a solid first half but struggled to move the ball in the third quarter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

The petition describes it as "medical misogyny", adding: "Women deserve terminology that respects them."

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Patients, however, rarely describe symptoms using standardized medical terminology.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

So when More invented the term ‘mechanical philosophy’ he was playing his part in importing the new terminology into English.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

“For the human transformation, we don’t need those terminologies — we have exact years,” said Dr. Finney, whose committee would be the last to vote on the working group’s proposal if it gets that far.

From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2022

Or a long series of practice reps to better understand new systems and terminologies.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2022

He also revealed that his stage name came from "little terminologies" he developed with friends in the 1990s.

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2022

“They’ll use any platform available, and they will adjust their methods to evade detection, like switching terminologies and using code words.”

From National Geographic ● Dec. 18, 2020

Ohmae’s company even has contracts with more than seventy thousand housewives, some of them specialists in medical or legal terminologies, to do data-entry work at home.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman


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