jargon
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Columnist Julie Jargon looks at what’s more likely to work.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 17, 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
It is not, like modern Jargon, trying to dodge something.
From On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
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