as in informal
used in or suitable for speech and not formal writing
writes essays in a very easy-to-read, vernacular style
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Recent Examples of vernacular
Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 29 Apr. 2025
Politics are dominating the popular vernacular like never before, and the introduction of the Trump store on Amazon will certainly add to that ongoing conversation.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 7 Apr. 2025
Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 4 June 2025
There are now more than two decades’ worth of experimental websites, art projects on defunct social networks, and vernacular digital images that have simply been lost to technological obsolescence and disuse.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 7 May 2025
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Adjective
Studio Collins Weir Studio Collins Weir designed this space to build on the warm materialism of the architecture and play to the agrarian vernacular of the Mill Valley, California, project.
—Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 29 Apr. 2025
Politics are dominating the popular vernacular like never before, and the introduction of the Trump store on Amazon will certainly add to that ongoing conversation.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
While some of these notes use Church Slavonic, most of them are written in a vernacular dialect and many recount personal matters and everyday happenings
Less than 3 percent of the Medieval settlement has actually been excavated systematically.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 4 June 2025
There are now more than two decades’ worth of experimental websites, art projects on defunct social networks, and vernacular digital images that have simply been lost to technological obsolescence and disuse.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 7 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vernacular
Adjective
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Proposition 12 is the colloquial term for the Farm Animal Confinement Initiative.—
Alan Wooten,
The Washington Examiner,
28 June 2025
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The strawberry moon is the colloquial name for June's full moon, a term originating from Native American tribes who marked the time when wild strawberries reached peak ripeness.—
Kate Nalepinski,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 June 2025
Noun
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To quote a homespun idiom, there are different horses for different courses.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
23 July 2025
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Especially in multilingual markets, users frequently mix languages and use non-standard grammar, local idioms, creative spelling and hybrid sentence structures.—
Alessa Cross,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2025
Noun
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There was no third option in this binomial exercise.—
Chantel Jennings,
The Athletic,
24 Mar. 2025
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She is credited with naming and cataloging hundreds of native plants in the Hudson River Valley using Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus’ then-new binomial system of botanical nomenclature.—
Jessica Damiano,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Mar. 2024
Noun
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This could involve helping systems learn colloquialisms and proper usages of terms.—
Kathy Kristof,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Mar. 2025
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You would be forgiven for assuming this a playful colloquialism, perhaps revealing a tenderness to the hunt.—
Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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The suite's regal name is a bit of a misnomer, as it's not technically reserved for royalty.—
Janine Henni,
People.com,
9 July 2025
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The show was viewed not just by the 42,000 in attendance at Villa Park in Birmingham in central England, but more than 3 million more who paid for a livestream — which was a bit of a misnomer, since the stream ran about two hours behind the live festivities.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
5 July 2025
Noun
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But nobody was quite prepared for what a bombshell, to use the show’s parlance, season seven would turn out to be.—
Rebecca Jennings,
Vulture,
14 July 2025
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In the parlance of the United Nations, it is somewhat expected to call for a Framework Convention on significant topics.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
12 July 2025
Noun
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Or is this only a phase during which time these non-U.S. marketers and non-English language natives are making an all-out assault to project and protect brand names into the United States for their own purposes?—
Jess Collen,
Forbes.com,
12 July 2025
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The affected products included popular mineral and organic sunscreens marketed under several brand names and were distributed across New Jersey, Florida, and Michigan by Kabana Skin Care, headquartered in Louisville, Colorado.—
Matt Cannon,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 July 2025
Noun
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His 1796 farewell address became a preeminent statement on republicanism: Washington wrote about the importance of national unity and the dangers that regionalism, partisanship, and foreign influence pose to it.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
9 June 2025
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Notwithstanding the resurgence of regionalism in international affairs, none of the contributors expect the five American countries to form a coherent Western Hemisphere lobby within the G-20.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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“Vernacular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vernacular. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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