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In addition to field trips, there are also digital teaching resources about the attacks, such as "OOPA's World of Words," an online series of videos to build vocabulary and social literacy for younger readers.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
More than a century later, the vocabulary has modernized, but the underlying idea has barely budged.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
Sean “Jack” Murphy has been choreographing for “Bridgerton” since the beginning, crafting the physical vocabulary of the characters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Wells Fargo bank analyst Mike Mayo called the vocabulary Moynihan uses on calls an “intellectual flex” and said it was better to keep it simple.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Recordings also provide inspiration, and lay the groundwork for understanding music’s vocabulary and structure.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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In totalitarian regimes, censored vocabularies create the illusion of consensus and the impossibility of dissent.
From Salon ● May 3, 2025
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
Past research has shown that efficient color vocabularies are constrained both by how people perceive colors and by how much they want or need to communicate about a given color.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 2024
Educators who supported passage of the law contended that writing by hand helps children learn to read, spell and build their vocabularies in ways that typing does not.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2024
It looks as though at first Boyle wanted to keep these two sides of his intellectual life, with their different vocabularies, separate.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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