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jargon

[jahr-guhn, -gon] / ˈdʒɑr gən, -gɒn /


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These in-home sensors and location trackers can help families keep tabs on the health and safety of their aging loved ones while also respecting their privacy, writes Julie Jargon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Jargon, he noticed, can be imbued with pseudo-religious significance.

From Salon • Feb. 15, 2025

Jargon was the enemy, but graduate students dreaming of tenure would have to search elsewhere at the university not to be shut out of the discourse, a word he no doubt would have found lazy.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2023

Jargon can be hard to understand, but even worse are familiar terms that in a scientific context have entirely different meanings.

From Scientific American • Jan. 27, 2023

O-o-o! yeou'd a died to seen the excitement that instrer-ment made in Jargon Institoot.

From The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge




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