jargon

Example Sentences

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Because we are creating synthetic stock—trader jargon for using options to mimic actual shares—let’s use expirations of six months and longer to simulate equity ownership.

From Barron's • Jun. 24, 2026

The exterior’s focal points are the recessed areas—coves, in the jargon of early Corvettes—aft the front wheel arches, set off with J-shaped accents that reach across the doors’ shutline.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 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

I wish the show’s wall text and labels weren’t so overloaded with jargon, verbs like navigating, negotiating, interrogating, decentering, decontextualizing, disrupting and destabilizing.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

There was some legal jargon, but I grasped this: She committed J.T. and Digger to the custody of juvenile services—to nine months in a forestry camp for juvenile offenders out in western Maryland.

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings