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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 problem is, in simple parlance, too many dollars chasing too few goods.
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Bill Conerly, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
All of this parlance that’s coming into football feels influenced by the States.
—Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024
While not exactly profound, the wine is delicious and true to the variety: salty, apple-y and apricot-y — crushable, in the parlance of our time.
—Patrick Comiskey, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
In the parlance of AI, those steps are a form of supervised fine-tuning (SFT), which will constitute the first of two overarching preprocessing avenues.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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Bill Conerly, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
All of this parlance that’s coming into football feels influenced by the States.
—Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024
While not exactly profound, the wine is delicious and true to the variety: salty, apple-y and apricot-y — crushable, in the parlance of our time.
—Patrick Comiskey, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
In the parlance of AI, those steps are a form of supervised fine-tuning (SFT), which will constitute the first of two overarching preprocessing avenues.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parlance
Noun
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Wyle: Somewhere between a third and a half of these scripts get farmed out to Dr. Joe Sachs, who puts the medical terminology and who does what in the scene based on the hierarchy and the level of expertise of the character, and the internal friction between the characters.—
Max Gao,
Variety,
24 Jan. 2025
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This terminology highlights a proactive mindset where employees choose to advocate for improvement rather than disengage.—
Dr. Diane Hamilton,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
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Director Brady Corbet denied the allegations, saying that stars Adrian Brody and Felicity Jones worked for months with a dialect coach to perfect their characters’ Hungarian accents, and that only the Hungarian portions of the film were adjusted manually using Respeecher technology.—
Zoe G. Phillips,
The Hollywood Reporter,
4 Feb. 2025
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In his interview with Red Shark News, Jancsó said AI was used to tweak certain parts of the Hungarian dialect spoken by stars Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones in The Brutalist for the sake of accuracy.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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In the 53 years since the Baker Act took effect, the statute authored by late lawmaker Maxine Baker has entered the Florida vernacular as a verb.—
Carol Marbin Miller,
Miami Herald,
2 Jan. 2025
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In the past decade, underground electronic and experimental scenes in Seoul, Manila, Tokyo, Ho Chi Minh, Shanghai, Taipei, Bangkok—the list goes on—began developing their own vernacular and forming a network within Asia.—
James Gui,
Pitchfork,
5 Oct. 2024
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Knowing the correct four-word idioms is a sign of education.—
Rachel Chang,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Feb. 2025
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Glover’s score — for rock band, piano and acoustic strings — evokes pop idioms while politely sidestepping direct quotation.—
Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim,
New York Times,
20 Jan. 2025
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Although challenges remain, future systems trained on greater amounts of non-English data could be capable of discerning subtle differences between dialects and understanding the meaning and cultural context of slang or Internet memes.—
Anne Neuberger,
Foreign Affairs,
15 Jan. 2025
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Plus, since most of the app's content is in Mandarin, subtitles are suddenly rampant — as are posts from Americans who want to learn the language, including by exchanging translations of popular slang phrases with Chinese commenters.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
15 Jan. 2025
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The Academy didn’t seem to mind, awarding the film 13 Oscar nods, the most for any non-English language film in history.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
8 Feb. 2025
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Given the baroque language of the text, not to mention the metaphysical events within the narrative itself, Dieter’s exact exploits remain open for interpretation.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Parlance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parlance. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.
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