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Which may explain the newest addition to the slop lexicon: PE, or private-equity, slop.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

Digital technology has long been fertile ground for new English idioms, with terms such as “reboot,” “bandwidth” and “downtime” entering the popular lexicon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Over the past decade, the concept of “buckets” has entered the investment-adviser lexicon.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

Textualism requires courts to read words in their statutory setting, not as isolated entries in a lexicon.

From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026

Because the British were the most active in the early years, British names are predominant in the geological lexicon.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker and Fed Governors Christopher Waller and Philip Jefferson in recent weeks have introduced ‘skip’ and ‘skipping’ into Fed-watchers’ lexicons.

From Reuters ● Jun. 7, 2023

No wonder that young people have also seemed especially receptive to absorbing the ideas of therapy into their lives and their lexicons — speaking with casual familiarity about triggers and traumas and diagnoses.

From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2022

“Popular threads develop intrinsic behavioral norms, and informal vocabularies or lexicons, which become narrower and narrower,” he told me in an email.

From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2022

In contrast to languages such as Chinese and ancient Greek, where systematic, dictionary-like works have existed for millennia, the earliest English lexicons didn’t begin to be assembled until the 16th century.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2018

Two Greek lexicons, one inside the other, formed a single being more monstrous in shape than the human couples of the divine Plato.

From Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels by Anatole France