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vernacular

[ver-nak-yuh-ler, vuh-nak-] / vərˈnæk jə lər, vəˈnæk- /




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Now, in the vernacular of our bet-on-anything era, it’s all part of monitoring the situation.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 13, 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

She couldn’t have known she’d alter my vernacular forever, but when Cher posted, “Whats going on with mycareer” — typos and all — nothing would ever be the same.

From Salon Mar. 22, 2026

In his own vernacular, he "mogs" everyone he meets - he is so at the top of his game that he outshines everyone in his presence.

From BBC Mar. 14, 2026

If I hadn't made him watch so many episodes of Days of Our Lives, he wouldn't have developed a nasty habit of speaking in the vernacular of a soap opera villain.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

“People at the top spoke a different language, often Latin, and populations would speak local vernaculars, which were not standardized.”

From Slate Jul. 4, 2026

This media can’t be boring or overly wonky — it must speak in popular vernaculars with style and panache.

From Salon Apr. 3, 2025

She is intimate with its maps and vernaculars, and the way summer settles hard on the north-central plains along the Brazos River south of Horseshoe Bend near Granbury.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 13, 2024

The music grew diffuse, those nuances that detail Dvorak’s fascination with Black musical vernaculars felt unarticulated, and what was supposed to gleam often felt, well, glum.

From Washington Post Aug. 6, 2022

The principle is a most important one, and, indeed, pervades all Indo-Aryan vernaculars of the present day, but it is carried out with the greatest thoroughness and consistency in Bihari.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various




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