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vernacular

[ver-nak-yuh-ler, vuh-nak-] / vərˈnæk jə lər, vəˈnæk- /




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Businesspeople who interact with more technical collaborators often serve as the vectors who bring such jargon into the wider corporate vernacular, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Most of the time, I can overlook diluted queer vernacular popping up in the most random places.

From Salon May 10, 2026

The excitement comes with its own vernacular, as “powder hounds” hit the slopes, looking for “fresh tracks” and “chasing pow.”

From Slate Apr. 11, 2026

In his own vernacular, he "mogs" everyone he meets - he is so at the top of his game that he outshines everyone in his presence.

From BBC Mar. 14, 2026

If I hadn't made him watch so many episodes of Days of Our Lives, he wouldn't have developed a nasty habit of speaking in the vernacular of a soap opera villain.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

“People at the top spoke a different language, often Latin, and populations would speak local vernaculars, which were not standardized.”

From Slate Jul. 4, 2026

He has driven across the country more than a dozen times, mapping highways, studying vernaculars.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 3, 2023

He went on to explain that even though language constantly evolves, different regions will continue to display their own collections of distinct vernaculars.

From Salon Sep. 2, 2022

And from its conductor, it demands not just mastery of Ravel’s own skillful orchestration, which often seems to rise from the body of the piano, but also the composer’s savvy interlocking of vernaculars.

From Washington Post Apr. 8, 2022

Though the Buddhist sovereigns published their edicts in the vernaculars, public inscriptions and private official documents continued to be composed in Sanskrit during the last two thousand years.

From India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge by Alexander Wilder




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