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the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field
I don't understand a lot of computer jargon
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Recent Examples of jargon
Expert Panel®, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
Technical jargon of any type can feel overwhelming and make even the most intelligent person feel out of touch.
—Steve Gickling, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Recode Staff, Recode, 13 June 2018
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Noun
And Directly Address the core issue publicly, directly, honestly and immediately, with no jargon whatsoever.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
Technical jargon of any type can feel overwhelming and make even the most intelligent person feel out of touch.
—Steve Gickling, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Verb
That’s like the same thing that happened in 2008 when everybody was bedazzled by all these Wall Street jargon terms like collateralized debt obligations.
—Recode Staff, Recode, 13 June 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jargon
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Honeywell Honeywell was the rare Charlotte-area Fortune 500 firm that kept its Inclusion and Diversity section and terminology in this year’s 10-K filing.—
Catherine Muccigrosso,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Mar. 2025
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Bates is overseeing other cases related to the administration, including one over gender terminology that led Republican Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee to introduce an impeachment resolution against him.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
27 Feb. 2025
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As the sounds of birds chirping echoed in the room, so did the shutters of cameras and the flittering around the more than 20 A-list guests who sat front row at the fashion event.—
Anika Reed,
USA TODAY,
12 Feb. 2025
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All game, the Rays had chirped from their dugout at Sabathia for pitching inside and then hitting Jake Bauers on the hand.—
Brendan Kuty,
The Athletic,
21 Jan. 2025
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In these and the more recent scores at MIT, the semiotic vocabulary of the Lakȟóta shape kit functions as abstract notations for musicians and performers to interpret.—
Christopher T. Green,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2025
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My mom is an avid (and award-winning) quilter, so quilting terms have always been part of my vocabulary.—
Sam Corbin,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2025
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That potential exists even moreso in soccer than in most other North American pro sports, given the limitless potential for mixing of languages, accents and even disparity of meanings based on dialect.—
Ian Nicholas Quillen,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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Madison, who won the Oscar for Best Actress, learned Russian, worked with a dialect coach to master the Brooklyn accent, shadowed real dancers, and even installed a pole in her living room for the role.—
Kalia Richardson,
Rolling Stone,
2 Mar. 2025
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But, Offit said, Makary’s language has damaged public trust in health institutions, including the one he’s been picked to lead.—
Matthew Perrone,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Mar. 2025
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Not to be confused with the dual language program for English learners (EL), Ambroiggio said approximately 7,000 students whose first language is other than English are in a program to develop their English skills to a level with their peers.—
Steve Sadin,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Mar. 2025
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Today’s teens face enough pressure without new slang emerging online to shame them.—
Melissa Willets,
Parents,
3 Feb. 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
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“Jargon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jargon. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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