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Breathing life into the liberty-virtue synthesis might require relinquishing the vocabulary of fusionism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
The cartoon turned the dynamic into an armed raid by cereal characters, but the basic instinct — watch a useful moral vocabulary become commercially useful — was already recognizable.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
In addition to field trips, there are also digital teaching resources about the attacks, such as "OOPA's World of Words," an online series of videos to build vocabulary and social literacy for younger readers.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
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
“Class, I have an important announcement. We’re having a surprise visitor this morning, before our party. So there’ll be no vocabulary test today.”
From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney
In totalitarian regimes, censored vocabularies create the illusion of consensus and the impossibility of dissent.
From Salon ● May 3, 2025
The researchers focused on the proportion of shape-based nouns in children's initial vocabularies.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2024
Toossi’s script handles this duality elegantly: The actors speak unaccented, colloquial English when they’re speaking Farsi; when they’re speaking English, their vocabularies scale back, and syntax becomes stilted, indefinite articles get forgotten.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
One of the reasons off-Broadway continues to be so vital is that it requires us to retool our critical vocabularies and to rethink our certainties of how this art form should behave.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2023
We read a lot, and we have great vocabularies as a result, but we don’t talk very much.
From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen
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