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The elevated mini dress is a chill, one-and-done staple for the summer, with more than one way to go about it to fit it into your own personal style lexicon: think elegant shift dresses, easy linens, lacy slips, and more sporty numbers.
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Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 20 July 2025
Her name re-enters the tennis lexicon at times like these, like a dreaded ghost from that 1988 French Open final, when Steffi Graf did to her what Świątek did to Anisimova.
—Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 12 July 2025
He’s credited with adding roughly 1,700 words to the English-language lexicon.
—Sam Kelly
july 8, Literary Hub, 8 July 2025
But lapses in the lexicon were obvious, as a mere sampling reveals.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 29 June 2025
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Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 20 July 2025
Her name re-enters the tennis lexicon at times like these, like a dreaded ghost from that 1988 French Open final, when Steffi Graf did to her what Świątek did to Anisimova.
—Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 12 July 2025
He’s credited with adding roughly 1,700 words to the English-language lexicon.
—Sam Kelly
july 8, Literary Hub, 8 July 2025
But lapses in the lexicon were obvious, as a mere sampling reveals.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 29 June 2025
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The bill would have also banned the use of aids such translation dictionaries, electronic devices or interpreters during the exams.—
Vivian Jones,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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An entry for the term was recently added to Among the New Words, a dictionary that is part of a quarterly installment of the journal American Speech.—
Nicole Stock,
New York Times,
17 June 2025
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