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The cartoon turned the dynamic into an armed raid by cereal characters, but the basic instinct — watch a useful moral vocabulary become commercially useful — was already recognizable.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
Now that term is barred from everyone’s vocabulary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
In addition to field trips, there are also digital teaching resources about the attacks, such as "OOPA's World of Words," an online series of videos to build vocabulary and social literacy for younger readers.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
Marketers are borrowing the vocabulary more readily than they are embracing some of the people who popularized it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
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From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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
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
We've searched our vocabularies for the name of the wood and settled on mahogany.
From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Narrative Writing, List 1
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