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used in or suitable for speech and not formal writing
writes essays in a very easy-to-read, vernacular style
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Recent Examples of vernacular
Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 17 Dec. 2024
It's become so ubiquitous in both slang and everyday vernacular that the term has even been added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
—Marilyn La Jeunesse, Parents, 16 Dec. 2024
Richard Olsen, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
Since 2015, the term lynching, a word with 18th-century American roots, has become part of the Indian vernacular.
—Mohammad Ali, WIRED, 14 Apr. 2020
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Tom Wolfe, in our pages in 1968, argued for it as a form of contemporary vernacular art, and so did the architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown in their hugely influential book Learning From Las Vegas.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 17 Dec. 2024
It's become so ubiquitous in both slang and everyday vernacular that the term has even been added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
—Marilyn La Jeunesse, Parents, 16 Dec. 2024
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Comparatively, while New Hampshire is quiet, with a small core group of practitioners working in regional vernaculars, Maine and Vermont boast a disproportionate number of architects—Elliott Architects and Birdseye among them—engaged in custom residential equal to that of the nation’s highest.
—Richard Olsen, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
Since 2015, the term lynching, a word with 18th-century American roots, has become part of the Indian vernacular.
—Mohammad Ali, WIRED, 14 Apr. 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vernacular
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To push the colloquial gold envelope even further, Swift added a chain belt.—
Stacia Datskovska,
WWD,
3 Jan. 2025
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From 1948 to 1972, Waugh served as an Army paratrooper and Green Beret, the colloquial name for Special Forces soldiers.—
Bayliss Wagner,
Austin American-Statesman,
18 Dec. 2024
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The Maze Runner actor sloughs off Roman’s moody persona, replacing that twin’s abrasive bluntness and struggle with idioms with the other’s quick wit and seductive charm.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
24 Jan. 2025
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For instance, the grammar and translation method has been modernized to help students grasp complex concepts like abstract words, idioms and metaphors.—
Geoffrey Alphonso,
Forbes,
3 Jan. 2025
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She is credited with naming and cataloging hundreds of native plants in the Hudson River Valley using Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus’ then-new binomial system of botanical nomenclature.—
Jessica Damiano,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Mar. 2024
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The watermelons grown in the United States were soon subsumed under the same Latin binomial.—
Alex Fox,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 June 2021
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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
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It’s been a year of chaos and colloquialisms, as the internet shaped not only our vocabulary but our entire political system.—
Kate Lindsay,
Vulture,
2 Jan. 2025
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Thought to have been brought to North America by European settlers, the name may be a bit of a misnomer.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA TODAY,
13 Jan. 2025
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Suggesting the 1995-96 Premier League campaign belonged to Tony Yeboah (and not Alan Shearer — sorry, Alan) might be a misnomer but, for a couple of glorious months as late summer turned towards autumn in 1995, Yeboah really did feel to be the only show in town.—
The Athletic UK Football Writers,
The Athletic,
30 Dec. 2024
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But Dell is taking it further by also adding a bit of auto industry parlance with three sub-tiers: Base, Plus, and Premium.—
Antonio G. Di Benedetto,
The Verge,
6 Jan. 2025
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The word has been in medieval parlance for centuries.—
Tim Spiers,
The Athletic,
29 Dec. 2024
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Russ Davis Wholesale announced a recall of various salads and wraps on December 1, sold under brand names Crazy Fresh, Quick & Easy and Kowalski's Markets, that used cucumbers supplied by Baloian Farms.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
11 Jan. 2025
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The majority were also treated with the antiviral oseltamivir, also known by the brand name Tamiflu, which may have helped to speed their recovery.—
Alexander Tin,
CBS News,
7 Jan. 2025
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So my focus is on regionalism and international tax developments.—
Tax Notes Staff,
Forbes,
20 Nov. 2024
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But European regionalism has always also included ethnic and cultural elements connected to Christianity and whiteness.—
Hans Kundnani,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Sep. 2024
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“Vernacular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vernacular. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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