lingua
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Luxe-maxxing influencers drink all this up, of course, as the lingua franca of social media influence is often wealth culture FOMO.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Lego’s effectiveness as a visual lingua franca must be both a point of pride for The Lego Group and, at times, its bane.
From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2026
His Russian has improved in prison, where it is a lingua franca among the inmates.
From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026
The talk was in Spanish, an unremarkable fact given the language has been the lingua franca on most construction sites in Southern California for decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2025
Few spoke English, and the lingua franca was an amalgam of many tongues known as Fanagalo.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Reminded that technically the war was over for Russia, Kisselev confessed a "lapsus linguae."
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1532 appeared his Thesaurus linguae Latinae, a dictionary of Latin words and phrases, upon which for two years he had toiled incessantly, with no other assistance than that of Thierry of Beauvais.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
"Then jump right in here and I'll drive you to her," said the boy, without running the risk of another lapsus linguae.
From Janice Day the Young Homemaker by Helen Beecher Long
Tom grinned—but seeing no one stir, "Another lapsus linguae, sir!"
From The Canadian Elocutionist by Anna Kelsey Howard
"Where is he going?" was Warren's lapsus linguae, at this bit of news.
From The Voice on the Wire by Eustace Hale Ball
