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Over the past decade, the concept of “buckets” has entered the investment-adviser lexicon.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
Textualism requires courts to read words in their statutory setting, not as isolated entries in a lexicon.
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026
If you’re chronically online like me, you’ve probably come across a slang-suffix that’s become part of the lexicon despite not being formally added to a dictionary — yet.
From Salon ● May 7, 2026
And with this description of parts of the Home Office in 2006, the then-Home Secretary John Reid minted a phrase that has lodged in the lexicon of British politics.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2026
Careful writers and discerning readers delight in the profusion of words in the English lexicon, no two of which are exact synonyms.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker and Fed Governors Christopher Waller and Philip Jefferson in recent weeks have introduced ‘skip’ and ‘skipping’ into Fed-watchers’ lexicons.
From Reuters ● Jun. 7, 2023
All these different lexicons are talking and there’s a dialogue there.
From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2022
It’s not just about being bilingual; I work with different lexicons.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 20, 2019
Very quickly, Robot learned that humans used slang, dialects, sociolects, and undocumented lexicons.
From Slate ● Dec. 29, 2018
He also wrote a work on the metres of the Greek dramatic poets, and compiled special lexicons to Aeschylus and Sophocles.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
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