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His vocabulary appears boundless, as does his apparent love for the city he grew up in, where he still lives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
The structure and vocabulary — and sometimes the em-dashes — are giveaways.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Warm up those brain muscles with our daily quiz, which tests the limits of your vocabulary.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026
Not just because it appears in both dishes, but because it gives them a shared vocabulary.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
We must think of art not in terms of everyday prose but of poetry, which is free to rearrange conventional vocabulary and syntax in order to convey new, often multiple, meanings and moods.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
In totalitarian regimes, censored vocabularies create the illusion of consensus and the impossibility of dissent.
From Salon ● May 3, 2025
On average, children with several ear infections before three years of age had smaller vocabularies and a harder time matching similar sounding words than children with few or no ear infections.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 3, 2024
Educators who supported passage of the law contended that writing by hand helps children learn to read, spell and build their vocabularies in ways that typing does not.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 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
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