vernacular
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Most of the time, I can overlook diluted queer vernacular popping up in the most random places.
From Salon • May 10, 2026
The excitement comes with its own vernacular, as “powder hounds” hit the slopes, looking for “fresh tracks” and “chasing pow.”
From Slate • Apr. 11, 2026
In football vernacular, Curl was a dawg Sunday night, coming up with a huge interception of Caleb Williams in overtime and setting up the winning field-goal drive.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2026
The painting’s full-length figures, like those in Old Master official portraits, are here translated into a contemporary vernacular, with a radiant Aline Charigot, Renoir’s future wife, in the arms of his friend Paul Lhote.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025
He talked to virtually no one but his horses, and then only in their vernacular of small gestures and soft sounds.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
Vocabulary lists containing vernacular
The AP English Exam: Writing, Grammar, and Word Choice
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Vivacious Vernacular: Words About Slang
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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