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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
In the lexicon of English cricket, a review usually means a raft of sackings, a meaty document and blaming county cricket.
From BBC • Mar. 20, 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
In the local lexicon, Truman High, in otherwise prosperous Bucks County, is “on the wrong side of Route 1.”
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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