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


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Sam doesn’t have Hally’s vocabulary, but he has something more valuable: wisdom and maturity.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

But even if the opinion is written in the clipped vocabulary of habeas review, the stakes are larger than that language suggests.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 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

Whereas visual vocabulary tends to be more detailed, we lack nuanced conceptual words to describe sound and our relationship to it.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin




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