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Over the past decade, the concept of “buckets” has entered the investment-adviser lexicon.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
Textualism requires courts to read words in their statutory setting, not as isolated entries in a lexicon.
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026
He made Danson’s Sam Malone and Long’s Diane Chambers part of our cultural lexicon by styling them as the ultimate will-they-or-won’t-they couple.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
And with this description of parts of the Home Office in 2006, the then-Home Secretary John Reid minted a phrase that has lodged in the lexicon of British politics.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2026
Charles, still fumbling with the lexicon, rose and offered his hand.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker and Fed Governors Christopher Waller and Philip Jefferson in recent weeks have introduced ‘skip’ and ‘skipping’ into Fed-watchers’ lexicons.
From Reuters ● Jun. 7, 2023
If there is one impulse that unites Feinstein’s oeuvre, it is perhaps this desire to tap into shared lexicons.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2022
Very quickly, Robot learned that humans used slang, dialects, sociolects, and undocumented lexicons.
From Slate ● Dec. 29, 2018
Groups of people form their own private lexicons because coded language is exclusive, exciting and defiant.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 8, 2016
The general plan is the same, whereas in some of the early lexicons the arrangement is so obscure and defective as to render them comparatively useless for practical purposes.
From Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters by W. Carew Hazlitt
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