vocabulary

Example Sentences

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“It is a narrative operation using a shared cultural vocabulary to reach a specific demographic,” namely anyone who has played these first-person shooter games.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

Filmed in front of a green screen in one of the rooms of her San Diego home, De León’s videos aim at helping young children learn vocabulary for specific real-life situations.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

It led to accusations of Arsenal being 'bottlers', a word Arteta says is "not part of my vocabulary".

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026

By the time he was running Mediacom, Commisso, the boy who came to the U.S. unable to speak English, had long since become a man with a colorful, high-decibel vocabulary.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Whereas visual vocabulary tends to be more detailed, we lack nuanced conceptual words to describe sound and our relationship to it.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin