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Protest movements have always developed their own emotional vocabulary to help people endure moments of fear together.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
His vocabulary appears boundless, as does his apparent love for the city he grew up in, where he still lives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
The structure and vocabulary — and sometimes the em-dashes — are giveaways.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
For years, publishing has built an elaborate vocabulary for identifying discrimination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
And, for Hobbes is nothing if not consistent, the same vocabulary appears in his Of Libertie and Necessitie of 1654.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
In totalitarian regimes, censored vocabularies create the illusion of consensus and the impossibility of dissent.
From Salon ● May 3, 2025
The works by Dennis are so faithful to existing vocabularies of infrastructure that they defy classification as art objects.
From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 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
One of the reasons off-Broadway continues to be so vital is that it requires us to retool our critical vocabularies and to rethink our certainties of how this art form should behave.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2023
We read a lot, and we have great vocabularies as a result, but we don’t talk very much.
From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen
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