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Playing off a six-language broadcast which means it can be viewed by 75% of Europeans in their mother tongue, Arte is still growing.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
26 Mar. 2026 -
First seen at a night-club table of menacing lowlifes, Ida, whose mother tongue is Brooklynese, suddenly switches to a heavy British accent and dispenses a torrent of highly literary sarcasms.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
4 Mar. 2026
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The centuries-old pot-kettle idiom points out hypocrisy — as when one person accuses another of a flaw that afflicts himself.—
George Skelton,
Mercury News,
26 Mar. 2026
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If the assignment is to translate something from a foreign language, there are plenty of tools and resources that can do it for you, including by recognizing and figuratively translating idioms.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
25 Mar. 2026
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Today, many of those words fill out the default dialect of an entire generation — regardless of race, region or class — living online.—
Moriah Humiston,
NBC news,
3 Apr. 2026
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The Poison frontman, evoking the regional dialect of his native Pittsburgh, bursts with adrenaline on a typical day.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2026
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However, following the path of Artemis II may be confusing as the astronauts, mission control and others use confusing jargon and phrases.—
ByMary Kekatos,
ABC News,
2 Apr. 2026
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The teacher also said Laura frequently used medical jargon that did not always make sense.—
Amelia Mugavero,
CBS News,
1 Apr. 2026
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But in modern English parlance, mantra has come to mean a person or group’s representative phrase, similar to a slogan or a watchword.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
31 Mar. 2026
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In military parlance, this usually translates to one attack on a specific target that might involve multiple weapons.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Mar. 2026
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Mogging is internet slang for dominating someone less attractive.—
Ashley Miznazi,
Miami Herald,
27 Mar. 2026
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In 1993, Green started compiling 500 years of English slang by sifting through mountains of primary sources.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
19 Feb. 2026
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His sympathetic patter also gives Guirgis an opportunity to start weaving in the character’s politics.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
31 Mar. 2026
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Whether for sleep, study or decompression after a long day, millions of viewers are finding that the gentle patter of rain on a tent is enough.—
Samantha Agate,
Kansas City Star,
30 Mar. 2026
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The movement and field of preservation and architectural history has since broadened its purview to include the vernacular, the midcentury modern and even the postmodern, yet our data and policies in Chicago remain stuck in the past.—
Elizabeth Blasius,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Mar. 2026
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The first episode of season three really served as a soft reboot for Red Dwarf, long before the term entered common vernacular.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
14 Mar. 2026
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“Acrolect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acrolect. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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