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glossary

[glos-uh-ree, glaw-suh-] / ˈglɒs ə ri, ˈglɔ sə- /
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Even writing a note about their deadlock was contentious, with two jurors wanting to include language about how the judge didn’t provide a glossary of legal terms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

A glossary of technical terms is updated regularly with new entries.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2025

There’s the obvious proof: a detailed glossary, and a notes and bibliography section that runs over 30 pages.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025

Here, you’ll find a glossary breaking down what all the ridiculous terms that get batted around when talking about crypto actually mean.

From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2025

That glossary isn’t complete—there are hundreds of the flowers of rhetoric in the overstuffed greenhouse of oratory—but it should provide a solid starting point.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

If you find yourself confused by any of these idioms, please consult one of the many “Love Island” glossaries the internet has to offer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2022

Shieling, gneiss, pash, choss, sheep-fank: While reading Robert Macfarlane’s essays in “Landmarks” you’ll want to pause to say the words — collected in glossaries throughout — aloud, savoring their pronunciations and meanings.

From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2018

At one point Lynch simply lists unusual guides and glossaries, such as “The Baltimore Bottle Book: Being an Annotated List of 170 Years of the Collector Bottles of Baltimore City and Baltimore County, 1820-1990.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2016

Updated daily, the site already contains glossaries for more than 1000 languages from 23 different language families, including 145,000 words.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 30, 2015

Holism is in some of the scientific glossaries but has not yet made it into most standard dictionaries of English.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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