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[lek-si-kon, -kuhn] / ˈlɛk sɪˌkɒn, -kən /


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I asked Patrick more about the marketing lexicon of the moment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

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

“I sleep better out here than I usually do,” said Henry, adjusting his glasses and bending back over the lexicon.

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

Because Rowling is a brilliant and beloved storyteller who is astonishingly good at entering lexicons, manipulating language and telling fantasy stories.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2023

No wonder that young people have also seemed especially receptive to absorbing the ideas of therapy into their lives and their lexicons — speaking with casual familiarity about triggers and traumas and diagnoses.

From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2022

“Popular threads develop intrinsic behavioral norms, and informal vocabularies or lexicons, which become narrower and narrower,” he told me in an email.

From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2022

Rhetoric, as defined in the lexicons, as taught in the schools, as practised in times of peaceful leisure—is not the kind that graced the forum during the American Revolution.

From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson




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