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Noun
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As a whole, the residences are described as a fusion of Mexican and Mediterranean modernism that lets the materiality do a lot of the speaking.—
Emma Reynolds,
Robb Report,
7 Feb. 2025 -
But what Zhang, an artist and feminist activist, does with her story transforms it into a work of calmly bold modernism.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
29 Jan. 2025
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Overall, Roman coinage comes with a variety of portraiture and other imagery, but every image and portrait has a purpose for whoever is deciding what to produce for the general Roman public.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
24 Jan. 2025
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As the South Asian community has put down roots over the decades, so have the organizations devoted to creating third places – a coinage by sociologist Ray Oldenburg for the places where people can gather, socialize and bond outside work and school.—
Isha Trivedi,
The Mercury News,
17 Jan. 2025
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Tam argues that these speech forms are not just dialects but distinct languages, as different from one another as many of the languages spoken in Europe.—
Gina Anne Tam,
Foreign Affairs,
20 Apr. 2021
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This system frees up space for speeches to be more interesting, as seen in Sheryl Lee Ralph’s musical interpolation of the acceptance-speech form.—
Vulture,
Vulture,
12 Sep. 2022
Noun
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Finally, liquid bat guano and liquid earthworm castings (guano and castings are euphemisms for excrement) are also utilized for foliar fertilization.—
Joshua Siskin,
Orange County Register,
14 Feb. 2025
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When health officials confirm bird flu in a flock, the birds are culled — a euphemism for killed — in order to stop the spread of the virus.—
Bruce Gil,
Quartz,
12 Feb. 2025
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In interviews, Twigs disbursed the meanings behind her neologism, her philosophy.—
Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
1 Feb. 2025
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Perhaps that’s why we’ve been bombarded with so many neologisms to describe mind states, like brain rot, or Eusexua.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
28 Jan. 2025
Noun
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In fact, Mandarin itself used thousands of loanwords from Japanese and English when new disciplines such as sociology and natural science entered China’s curricula a mere century ago.—
Tenzin Dorjee,
Foreign Affairs,
28 Nov. 2023
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During this period, more than 10,000 loanwords from French entered the English language, mostly in domains where the aristocracy held sway: the arts, military, medicine, law and religion.—
Phillip M. Carter,
Fortune Well,
12 June 2023
Noun
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Every language has its dialects, and each dialect can have its unique spin on colloquialisms.—
Victoria Song,
The Verge,
24 Jan. 2025
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There is even a colloquialism for those who curry favor among the moneyed on the island of Palm Beach.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
8 Jan. 2025
Noun
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And so, while the two talked at and around Andy Warhol and to each other, Warhol sat with his tiny dachshund, Archie Bunker, in his lap and snapped the reporters’ pictures with his new Polaroid camera, answering direct questions with shrugs or vague monosyllables.—
Stephen Birmingham,
Town & Country,
10 Aug. 2023
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Hearing this jab of monosyllables is like being poked in the eye.—
Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2023
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“Polysyllable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polysyllable. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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