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Example Sentences
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I fear we need to read more to build a deeper lexicon.
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
“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
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
Both videos helped facilitate Carpenter’s catapult into the cultural lexicon with the summer-infused shots in “Espresso” and the “Death Becomes Her” story line in “Taste.”
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
