vocabulary

Example Sentences

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Color is so fundamental to how we describe the world that we learn its vocabulary almost as early as the alphabet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Thereupon nuclear bluster permanently vanished from the U.S. presidential vocabulary, experts in diplomacy tell us, for reasons that boil down to a loss of credibility once Moscow could match the U.S. in nuclear firepower.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Filmed in front of a green screen in one of the rooms of her San Diego home, De León’s videos aim at helping young children learn vocabulary for specific real-life situations.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

It led to accusations of Arsenal being 'bottlers', a word Arteta says is "not part of my vocabulary".

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026

And I guess her drilling me in grammar and vocabulary has made me more articulite expresive eloquant good with words.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan