vocabulary

"This beautiful developmental transition is completely disrupted in Alzheimer's disease by pathological processes that mess with episodic memory and interfere with circuits that allow you to think about your own life, lexicon, and vocabulary."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

"These are minutes drawn up by notaries who abbreviate their decisions. The script is highly administrative, very pragmatic... with rather technical vocabulary," said historian Julie Claustre, who leads the e-NDP project.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

On the rare occasions when Erskine could find McCarthy, he pressed the author to rethink his arcane vocabulary choices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

More than a century later, the vocabulary has modernized, but the underlying idea has barely budged.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

Instead of making them do extra vocabulary words, though, Mrs. Brisbane let them rest their heads on their desks.

From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney

She was seeing many children under “balanced literacy” lessons slip through the cracks — especially those with limited vocabularies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025

In totalitarian regimes, censored vocabularies create the illusion of consensus and the impossibility of dissent.

From Salon ● May 3, 2025

Past research has shown that efficient color vocabularies are constrained both by how people perceive colors and by how much they want or need to communicate about a given color.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 2024

He was able to combine the rich ornamental vocabularies of various Classical, Romanesque, Moorish, Gothic and Renaissance styles into successful residential architecture that was grand in scale yet comfortable to live in.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2023

It looks as though at first Boyle wanted to keep these two sides of his intellectual life, with their different vocabularies, separate.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton