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[voh-kab-yuh-ler-ee] / voʊˈkæb jəˌlɛr i /


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ISO 9000, for example, lays out the basic concepts and vocabulary of quality management.

From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2026

"This beautiful developmental transition is completely disrupted in Alzheimer's disease by pathological processes that mess with episodic memory and interfere with circuits that allow you to think about your own life, lexicon, and vocabulary."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

"These are minutes drawn up by notaries who abbreviate their decisions. The script is highly administrative, very pragmatic... with rather technical vocabulary," said historian Julie Claustre, who leads the e-NDP project.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Yet even Bergman’s most schematic films—the ones in which ideas seem to drive him as much as mood, style or plot—make expressive use of cinema’s aesthetic vocabulary: light, composition, sometimes color, always sound or music.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Jake’s massive vocabulary seemed to vanish whenever he talked to Grace.

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein

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

The researchers focused on the proportion of shape-based nouns in children's initial vocabularies.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2024

Toossi’s script handles this duality elegantly: The actors speak unaccented, colloquial English when they’re speaking Farsi; when they’re speaking English, their vocabularies scale back, and syntax becomes stilted, indefinite articles get forgotten.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024

We read a lot, and we have great vocabularies as a result, but we don’t talk very much.

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen


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