vernacular
Example Sentences
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These events will remain the game's "tentpoles", to use the latest corporate vernacular.
From BBC
When he made it one of his catch phrases on ESPN, the expression entered the sports vernacular.
From Los Angeles Times
Two, he brought a black vernacular and sensibility to sports announcing in a way that embraced an entire constituency of viewers who, yes, were very interested in sports.
He was a magician, a linguist who reinvented and built his own emotional vernacular.
From Los Angeles Times
“It changes the scale and sophistication of digital deception and heralds a new vernacular of technical concepts related to detection and authentication that voters must now grapple with.”
From Los Angeles Times
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