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Ruby Hobbs-Leffler felt things with an intensity that even a smart little girl with a big vocabulary couldn’t put into words.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
They borrow the vocabulary of that relationship — we remember you; we know your favorites; we missed you — while removing the reciprocal part entirely.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Moynihan tends to slide in one vocabulary word for each earnings call.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
A chance to flex your big vocabulary: Do you know which activity a pugilist engages in?
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
And I guess her drilling me in grammar and vocabulary has made me more articulite expresive eloquant good with words.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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
Scientists tried using sign language to converse with apes and trained parrots to deploy growing English vocabularies.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2024
"As the vocabulary grows, the number of different vocabularies that you could move to is increasingly constrained."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 2024
“I move we officially ban the word sorry from our vocabularies while we’re here.”
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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