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There’s a vocabulary and a shorthand in how characters are depicted in TV series, especially in crime thrillers where the police-procedural aspects are supposed to embellish the characterizations.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
What has the medium got to give, with its vocabulary?
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
While grammar and vocabulary are undeniably important aspects of language learning, they don’t exist in isolation from how people communicate in everyday life.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2026
“That tells you the ingredient has crossed over into the broader American flavor vocabulary, which is the moment trends stop being trends and start being staples,” Oved said.
From Salon • May 6, 2026
Since there had never been a republican chief executive, there was no readily available vocabulary to characterize such a creature, except the verbal traditions that had built up around European courts and kings.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Dictionary Words: Lexicography Lingo
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Narrative Writing, List 1
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