jargon
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“In kind” is jargon for moving the actual shares into a taxable brokerage account rather than selling them inside the plan and transferring out the cash.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
But you don’t need to be fluent in markets jargon or have thousands of dollars stashed away to get started.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
It’s called the “Invisiball”—baseball jargon for a pitch that batters inexplicably can’t hit, as if it simply disappears on its way to the plate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Clinical geneticist Dr. Xiao P. Peng, who helped confirm Hinken’s family’s diagnoses, said the tools still make mistakes and are better at generating possible leads, translating complex medical jargon and compiling research than making diagnoses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
In the jargon of space exploration, the Mars 3 mission was preprogrammed, not adaptive.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing jargon
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