argot

Example Sentences

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In the argot of A.I. engineers, a program “hallucinates” when it generates falsehoods.

From New York Times

Characters speak in modern slang, Shakespearean verse, ’80s pop lyrics and that timeless argot of clumsy melodrama.

From Los Angeles Times

That’s at work here, too — an effort to gather up the fragments of a woman’s life and argot and make of it something whole.

From New York Times

Regardless of the language, the United Nations has its own argot, too.

From Seattle Times

The object, known as 3C273 in the flavorless argot of astronomy, was 3 billion light years away, a good chunk of the way back to the Big Bang.

From Los Angeles Times