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The show opened with songs in Mukherjee’s mother tongue Bengali, that were composed, written and sung by famous Bengali musicians including Nobel Prize awardee Rabindranath Tagore.—
Riddhi Doshi,
CNN,
28 Jan. 2025 -
Image The theme is the conflict between mother tongues and other tongues.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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Knowing the correct four-word idioms is a sign of education.—
Rachel Chang,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Feb. 2025
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Glover’s score — for rock band, piano and acoustic strings — evokes pop idioms while politely sidestepping direct quotation.—
Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim,
New York Times,
20 Jan. 2025
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What could be more revealing, fragile, and intimate — in any dialect — than the loneliness that pushes someone’s attempt to make a friend?—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
15 Feb. 2025
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Even today, traces of French can be found in the local dialect; the Palermitan aristocracy once spoke fluent French and frequently sent their chefs to Paris to master the art of haute cuisine.—
Tiziana Cardini,
Vogue,
27 Jan. 2025
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The original series found a way to achieve that: Slick, attractive characters delivered crisp legal jargon without coming off overly didactic.—
Emily Longeretta,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2025
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The lawsuit also says the financial impact statement prepared by the Division of Financial Management is biased and full of confusing legal jargon.—
Nicole Blanchard,
Idaho Statesman,
31 Jan. 2025
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My problem is when breaking is used — to borrow pro-wrestling parlance — to create a cheap pop.—
Tony Maglio,
IndieWire,
11 Feb. 2025
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Does Slot’s casual use of xG in a press conference suggest that advanced metrics have become fully embedded in football’s mainstream parlance?—
Mark Carey,
The Athletic,
23 Jan. 2025
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Although challenges remain, future systems trained on greater amounts of non-English data could be capable of discerning subtle differences between dialects and understanding the meaning and cultural context of slang or Internet memes.—
Anne Neuberger,
Foreign Affairs,
15 Jan. 2025
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Plus, since most of the app's content is in Mandarin, subtitles are suddenly rampant — as are posts from Americans who want to learn the language, including by exchanging translations of popular slang phrases with Chinese commenters.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
15 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The soft lining is warm and comfy and the fun holiday patters on the fleece side of the blanket add some festivity to your home.—
Christopher Murray,
Fox News,
16 Nov. 2024
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Ever the needler, Travis hands her money to buy a book to learn to speak English, because her hillbilly patter will drive him crazy.—
Lynette Rice,
Deadline,
15 Dec. 2024
Noun
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In the 53 years since the Baker Act took effect, the statute authored by late lawmaker Maxine Baker has entered the Florida vernacular as a verb.—
Carol Marbin Miller,
Miami Herald,
2 Jan. 2025
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In the past decade, underground electronic and experimental scenes in Seoul, Manila, Tokyo, Ho Chi Minh, Shanghai, Taipei, Bangkok—the list goes on—began developing their own vernacular and forming a network within Asia.—
James Gui,
Pitchfork,
5 Oct. 2024
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“Acrolect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acrolect. Accessed 26 Feb. 2025.
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