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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
On Friday, however, he made noise in a different sphere by placing an obscure financial term into the political lexicon: “Uninvestible.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2026
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
Former England captain Alan Shearer pointed to some of the phraseology that has come into the football lexicon around handball as he called for change.
From BBC • Nov. 11, 2025
Though no writer can avoid idioms altogether—they’re part of the English lexicon, just like individual words—good writers reach for fresh similes and metaphors that keep the reader’s sensory cortexes lit up.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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