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They borrow the vocabulary of that relationship — we remember you; we know your favorites; we missed you — while removing the reciprocal part entirely.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
A chance to flex your big vocabulary: Do you know which activity a pugilist engages in?
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
Sean “Jack” Murphy has been choreographing for “Bridgerton” since the beginning, crafting the physical vocabulary of the characters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Moynihan tends to slide in one vocabulary word for each earnings call.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
“And you will work each evening, before sundown, to finish your vocabulary lessons and the fundamentals of arithmetic.”
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
In totalitarian regimes, censored vocabularies create the illusion of consensus and the impossibility of dissent.
From Salon ● May 3, 2025
Past research has shown that efficient color vocabularies are constrained both by how people perceive colors and by how much they want or need to communicate about a given color.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 2024
Educators who supported passage of the law contended that writing by hand helps children learn to read, spell and build their vocabularies in ways that typing does not.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2024
He was able to combine the rich ornamental vocabularies of various Classical, Romanesque, Moorish, Gothic and Renaissance styles into successful residential architecture that was grand in scale yet comfortable to live in.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2023
They were emotional expressions of inarticulate people with small vocabularies; they made a kind of dialect.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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