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[voh-kab-yuh-ler-ee] / voʊˈkæb jəˌlɛr i /


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The cycle has closed with almost insulting neatness: a new intervention, a new moral vocabulary, a new consumer workaround — and Cartman, once again, looking for a way to change without changing very much.

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

The vocabulary game shows a sense of humor that doesn’t always come through in public, some of the people said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

Sean “Jack” Murphy has been choreographing for “Bridgerton” since the beginning, crafting the physical vocabulary of the characters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

It seemed Mrs. Dent had not studied that science: though, as she said, she liked flowers, “especially wild ones;” Miss Ingram had, and she ran over its vocabulary with an air.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

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

They were better educated and their larger vocabularies shamed him.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson




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