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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
McDonald’s becomes not merely something Trump eats or campaigns beside, but part of the visual vocabulary through which people understand him.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
Königsberg, the home of Immanuel Kant, supplied a civic vocabulary: law, citizenship and Bildung—the ideal of self-cultivation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
It’s the same vocabulary Purcell itself uses to describe exactly the kind of last-minute disruption that courts have spent 19 years trying to prevent.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026
He was a bad painter and a vicious gossip, with a vocabulary composed almost entirely of obscenities, guttural verbs, and the word “postmodernist.”
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
She was seeing many children under “balanced literacy” lessons slip through the cracks — especially those with limited vocabularies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025
In totalitarian regimes, censored vocabularies create the illusion of consensus and the impossibility of dissent.
From Salon ● May 3, 2025
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
"As the vocabulary grows, the number of different vocabularies that you could move to is increasingly constrained."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 2024
It looks as though at first Boyle wanted to keep these two sides of his intellectual life, with their different vocabularies, separate.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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