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Vance’s efforts to seem hip come across as forced, as if he has never met a fellow millennial and can only approximate their lingo and cadence from reading old magazine reviews of movies like “Clueless.”
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026
The word “hawk” in Fed lingo is associated with officials committed to raising rates to tamp down inflation, even if it means some damage to the economy, such as rising unemployment.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
The “gig economy” entered the lingo in 2009, as increasing numbers of people tried to cobble two or more part-time, no-benefit “gigs” into a living wage.
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
For all its shortcomings, corporate lingo is nothing less than a survival mechanism—so important that I don’t think we could do our jobs without it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
Pollard, in the lingo of jockeys, asked Seabiscuit the question.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
What a sad neglect in our education, among all the acquired lingoes extant, to have overlooked the Gaelic!
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
"I'll bet you hablar those French and German lingoes like a native," he ventured.
From Heart of the Sunset by Rex Ellingwood Beach
The Doctor introduced me, with much affectionate effusion and many particulars concerning my family and early history, to the man of unearthly lingoes.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 by Various
"I been listenin' good, an' I hear 'em jabber, jabber, jabber all dey fanciful lingoes, but I 'ain't heern nair one say polly fronsay, an' yit I know dats de riverend book French."
From Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales by Ruth McEnery Stuart
That the requisite number of individuals well acquainted with some of the outlandish lingoes which had to be grappled with proved to be forthcoming, is a matter of surprise and a subject for congratulation.
From Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 by Sir C. E. (Charles Edward) Callwell
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