vocabulary

ISO 9000, for example, lays out the basic concepts and vocabulary of quality management.

From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2026

"This beautiful developmental transition is completely disrupted in Alzheimer's disease by pathological processes that mess with episodic memory and interfere with circuits that allow you to think about your own life, lexicon, and vocabulary."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

"These are minutes drawn up by notaries who abbreviate their decisions. The script is highly administrative, very pragmatic... with rather technical vocabulary," said historian Julie Claustre, who leads the e-NDP project.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Yet even Bergman’s most schematic films—the ones in which ideas seem to drive him as much as mood, style or plot—make expressive use of cinema’s aesthetic vocabulary: light, composition, sometimes color, always sound or music.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

“She already knows we’re here,” Celia says without looking up from the list of Spanish vocabulary words she’s reviewing.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

As they launched their campaign against the quarry, “vested rights” soon became an indelible part of their vocabularies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

In totalitarian regimes, censored vocabularies create the illusion of consensus and the impossibility of dissent.

From Salon ● May 3, 2025

The works by Dennis are so faithful to existing vocabularies of infrastructure that they defy classification as art objects.

From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2024

Toossi’s script handles this duality elegantly: The actors speak unaccented, colloquial English when they’re speaking Farsi; when they’re speaking English, their vocabularies scale back, and syntax becomes stilted, indefinite articles get forgotten.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024

They were better educated and their larger vocabularies shamed him.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson