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as in terminology
the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field
scientific vocabulary
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the stock of words, pronunciation, and grammar used by a people as their basic means of communication
children learn enough of the common vocabulary to make themselves understood by around the age of two
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Reading also entails background knowledge, comprehension and vocabulary.
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Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
This includes practical life skills, including personal care and courtesy; sensorial development to help the child make judgments based on size, shape, color, temperature, smell, and sound; and the advancement of language and vocabulary from phonics to more complex grammar.
—Jose Bolanos, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
Ann was ultimately presented with hundreds of sentences, all based on a limited vocabulary of 1,024 words.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 2 Apr. 2025
Mastering language—with its nuanced vocabulary and conceptual frameworks—amplifies your ability to inspire teams and drive innovation.
—Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
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Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
This includes practical life skills, including personal care and courtesy; sensorial development to help the child make judgments based on size, shape, color, temperature, smell, and sound; and the advancement of language and vocabulary from phonics to more complex grammar.
—Jose Bolanos, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
Ann was ultimately presented with hundreds of sentences, all based on a limited vocabulary of 1,024 words.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 2 Apr. 2025
Mastering language—with its nuanced vocabulary and conceptual frameworks—amplifies your ability to inspire teams and drive innovation.
—Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
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Actors had to wear about 50 pounds of tactical gear during shoots, carry each other for two miles on stretchers and master radio etiquette, weapons handling, and military terminology.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
Time,
10 Apr. 2025
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Through their own initiatives, these activists have secured equal pay for Paralympic athletes and changed discriminatory terminology in Major League Baseball.—
Jay Ruderman,
Rolling Stone,
9 Apr. 2025
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This shift highlights how language, once a neutral tool for communication, has increasingly become a battleground for ideological expression.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Apr. 2025
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Sainz was spoken to by the FIA’s media delegate over his language on Friday morning in Bahrain ahead of opening practice at the Sakhir circuit.—
Luke Smith,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
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To prepare, Reid worked with a dialect coach and learned the specific physicality associated with Natalia's condition.—
Lee Habeeb,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Apr. 2025
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The interview was conducted in a mixture of English and Low German, a dialect widely spoken within the Christian Mennonite community.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
22 Mar. 2025
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Like everyone else, the dog starts out in black and white, only for his slurping tongue to gain some Technicolor.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
8 Apr. 2025
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But more often than not, the sharp tongue and the sly eye roll serve a deeper purpose: survival.—
Shelby Stewart,
Essence,
8 Apr. 2025
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Their motto is gambler’s slang for risking it all in one effort to win big.—
Kurt Snibbe,
Oc Register,
3 Apr. 2025
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Robert De Niro’s daughter poked fun at the actor for struggling to keep up with teen slang.—
Stephanie Giang-Paunon,
FOXNews.com,
25 Mar. 2025
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Ultimately, Andrews and his actors find Chekhov by abandoning the paraphernalia of the writer’s universe and groping, in their own idiom, across a perilously empty stage, toward one another.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
4 Apr. 2025
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Which is fitting for a composer who, even when developing a homegrown idiom of his own, was criticized for sounding too European.—
Joshua Barone,
New York Times,
17 Feb. 2025
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“Vocabulary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vocabulary. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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