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the manner of speech used by a particular group of people
In military parlance, "bug out" means "to retreat." They spoke the parlance of those in the technology industry.
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Recent Examples of parlance
The new documents, photos, drawings and videos add to the government's rapidly expanding archive of unexplained sightings, known in official parlance as UAPs, or Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena.
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Josh Meyer,
USA Today,
12 June 2026
The post quickly became a vaunted piece of creepypasta, influencing everything from Severance to Playboi Carti, and it has been adopted as everyday parlance to describe any eerie, liminal space.
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Harry Thorfinn-George,
Pitchfork,
11 June 2026
Harbour, working with ASL interpreters on set, adapted the lines as written to fit the rhythms and structures of ASL parlance.
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Daniel D'addario,
Variety,
11 June 2026
In corporate parlance, a spin-off occurs when a company creates a separate, independent business entity from one of its existing divisions.
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Rob Nikolewski,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 June 2026
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Josh Meyer,
USA Today,
12 June 2026
The post quickly became a vaunted piece of creepypasta, influencing everything from Severance to Playboi Carti, and it has been adopted as everyday parlance to describe any eerie, liminal space.
—
Harry Thorfinn-George,
Pitchfork,
11 June 2026
Harbour, working with ASL interpreters on set, adapted the lines as written to fit the rhythms and structures of ASL parlance.
—
Daniel D'addario,
Variety,
11 June 2026
In corporate parlance, a spin-off occurs when a company creates a separate, independent business entity from one of its existing divisions.
—
Rob Nikolewski,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parlance
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Learning about their industry and its terminology would be a huge task for me.
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Every major technology shift creates terminology confusion.
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Unlike the brighter, more melodic style often associated with Austria and the Tyrol region, Swiss yodeling is slower and more melancholic — an emotionally nuanced tradition rooted in distinct regional dialects.
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Unlike the brighter, more melodic style often associated with Austria and the Tyrol region, Swiss yodeling is slower and more melancholic — an emotionally nuanced tradition rooted in distinct regional dialects.
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Among other things, the 1960s meetings known as Vatican II revolutionized the church’s relations with other Christians, Jews and people of other faiths and allowed Mass to be celebrated in the vernacular rather than Latin.
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Among other things, the 1960s church meetings revolutionized the Catholic Church’s relations with other Christians, Jews and people of other faiths, and allowed Mass to be celebrated in the vernacular rather than Latin.
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On the one hand, the translation serves as a source for the idioms of nineteenth-century English; on the other, as evidence of the ideas that the translator held about a Colombian woman writer.
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Out of love for different sound systems, different writing systems, different grammars, different sets of concepts, different idioms, different ways of seeing the world.
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Their influence stretched beyond music into fashion, dance trends and slang, and as member Pimpin' noted, fans are still doing the group's signature dance more than two decades later, something a SeaWorld whale recently proved.
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Benoit delights in language as much as her heroine, weaving Regency-era slang throughout and appending a chapter-by-chapter glossary of vulgarities.
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Eight groups challenged the department’s definition in court, representing nurse practitioners, therapists, speech language pathologists and more.
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Keep language simple, confirm times, and leave extra room between commitments.
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“Parlance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parlance. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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