vocabulary

Example Sentences

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Dictionaries had long belonged to scholars of language and literature, but modern life was increasingly shaped by science, and its vocabulary needed explanation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

As she points out in her professional bio, it was movies and TV that helped with her English vocabulary, especially the Disney sitcom “Lizzie McGuire.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026

It led to accusations of Arsenal being 'bottlers', a word Arteta says is "not part of my vocabulary".

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026

By the time he was running Mediacom, Commisso, the boy who came to the U.S. unable to speak English, had long since become a man with a colorful, high-decibel vocabulary.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

He found that the peasants’ vocabulary didn’t even have a word for illicit drugs, which almost no one could afford anyway.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French