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Almost exactly two years ago, a splashy feature in the New York Times introduced the arrival of the Hype House, a collective of mostly white, attractive teenagers who had recently become famous on an app that was only just beginning to be part of the national lexicon.
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Vox Staff, Vox, 10 Jan. 2025
Image ‘Eureka Day’ Mansplaining, virtue signaling and new-age parlance set the lexicon for Jonathan Spector’s hilarious play about a progressive preschool rocked by a vaccination debate.
—Rachel Sherman, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
Subsequent research has found large olfactory lexicons in at least forty other languages, among them Fang, Khmer, Swahili, and Zapotec.
—Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Chalamet, by contrast, persuasively reminds his audience that Dylan, though lacking personal charm, managed to create a new sound and a new lexicon for his generation.
—Peter Bart, Deadline, 19 Dec. 2024
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Vox Staff, Vox, 10 Jan. 2025
Image ‘Eureka Day’ Mansplaining, virtue signaling and new-age parlance set the lexicon for Jonathan Spector’s hilarious play about a progressive preschool rocked by a vaccination debate.
—Rachel Sherman, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
Subsequent research has found large olfactory lexicons in at least forty other languages, among them Fang, Khmer, Swahili, and Zapotec.
—Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Chalamet, by contrast, persuasively reminds his audience that Dylan, though lacking personal charm, managed to create a new sound and a new lexicon for his generation.
—Peter Bart, Deadline, 19 Dec. 2024
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“Lexicon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lexicon. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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