lexicon

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Drawing on contemporary color standards and systems such as Munsell’s, he set out to do something deceptively difficult: translate the scientific lexicon into terms everyday readers could understand.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

In the lexicon of English cricket, a review usually means a raft of sackings, a meaty document and blaming county cricket.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

“It’s weird that something that we just threw off like that suddenly becomes part of the lexicon of our lives,” Reiner said on NPR’s “Fresh Air” in September.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025

The term quickly spread beyond the ranks of the police officers who coined it, with “Black Friday” entering the lexicon in the early 1960s.

From Barron's • Nov. 28, 2025

She speaks the hard-edged lexicon of bygone tourists itchy to throw dice on green felt or asphalt.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García