lexicon

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

Terms like close talker, yada yada yada and the Soup Nazi are part of the American lexicon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

Rishi was fairly sure he lacked the lexicon to put into words what was happening in his brain—and his body—right then.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

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

All these different lexicons are talking and there’s a dialogue there.

From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2022

The message is followed by one of the many Pengsoo-specific slang terms that have entered viewers’ lexicons: “Peng-love-you.”

From The Guardian ● Dec. 3, 2020

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