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Sam doesn’t have Hally’s vocabulary, but he has something more valuable: wisdom and maturity.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
But even if the opinion is written in the clipped vocabulary of habeas review, the stakes are larger than that language suggests.
From Slate • Apr. 10, 2026
Thereupon nuclear bluster permanently vanished from the U.S. presidential vocabulary, experts in diplomacy tell us, for reasons that boil down to a loss of credibility once Moscow could match the U.S. in nuclear firepower.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
Filmed in front of a green screen in one of the rooms of her San Diego home, De León’s videos aim at helping young children learn vocabulary for specific real-life situations.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026
“Another one for the vocabulary list, I see, Nell,” my aunt said with a sigh, the railroad tracks clacking below our feet as we rolled east across Indiana.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Dictionary Words: Lexicography Lingo
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Narrative Writing, List 1
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