lexicon

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

I went back to my room and sat at my desk and opened my lexicon, but I didn’t look at it.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

Because Rowling is a brilliant and beloved storyteller who is astonishingly good at entering lexicons, manipulating language and telling fantasy stories.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2023

Whistle lexicons vary, but some standards have emerged.

From New York Times ● May 17, 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

Japanese dictionaries are for the purpose of hunting up Japanese meanings of Chinese letters, answering to your Latin and Greek lexicons.

From A Japanese Boy by Shigemi Shiukichi