jargon

Example Sentences

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Volatile stocks, known as “high beta” in finance jargon, have been the only game in town since last April’s “Liberation Day” swoon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

The language used to describe snack tins is so flowery — and muddled by hyper-wellness jargon — it’s almost nonsensical.

From Salon • May 17, 2026

In the age of artificial intelligence, there is the added advantage that the purposeful ambiguity of corporate jargon makes it confusing for large language models.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

"When we have a trauma scene, a big complicated scene, we're really taken through that in terms of choreography," he said, adding that the medical jargon was "a lot sometimes".

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026

As writers, then, we should try to get into our readers’ heads and be mindful of how easy it is to fall back on parochial jargon and private abstractions.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker