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"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
Breathing life into the liberty-virtue synthesis might require relinquishing the vocabulary of fusionism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
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
Now that term is barred from everyone’s vocabulary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
He likes colors—he calls them “hues”—so he might wear lavender and chartreuse together, partly for fashion, but I swear he dresses funky so we can have new vocabulary words.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
As they launched their campaign against the quarry, “vested rights” soon became an indelible part of their vocabularies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
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
"As the vocabulary grows, the number of different vocabularies that you could move to is increasingly constrained."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 2024
We've searched our vocabularies for the name of the wood and settled on mahogany.
From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour
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