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Recent Examples of terminology
Learning about their industry and its terminology would be a huge task for me.
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Chris John Amorosino,
Hartford Courant,
20 June 2026
New treatment possibilities emerge, often accompanied by unfamiliar terminology and difficult decisions.
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Lauryn Higgins,
Flow Space,
15 June 2026
In a statement using gambling terminology, Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman vowed to fight the legal challenge.
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ABC News,
12 June 2026
The initiative’s website also features a World Cup section, outlining proper soccer terminology, tips for getting around the Northland and weekly watch parties hosted or promoted by Go North KC.
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Jenna Ebbers,
Kansas City Star,
11 June 2026
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Chris John Amorosino,
Hartford Courant,
20 June 2026
New treatment possibilities emerge, often accompanied by unfamiliar terminology and difficult decisions.
—
Lauryn Higgins,
Flow Space,
15 June 2026
In a statement using gambling terminology, Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman vowed to fight the legal challenge.
—
ABC News,
12 June 2026
The initiative’s website also features a World Cup section, outlining proper soccer terminology, tips for getting around the Northland and weekly watch parties hosted or promoted by Go North KC.
—
Jenna Ebbers,
Kansas City Star,
11 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for terminology
Recent Examples of Synonyms for terminology
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Understanding The Exposure Gap Many young marketers arrive with ambition, vocabulary and a solid grasp of brand theory.
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Meanwhile, the very vocabulary of humanitarianism and antiracism has become so selectively applied or debased as to be meaningless.
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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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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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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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Online job listings have become so formulaic — copy-pasted from old descriptions and bloated with internal jargon — that even strong candidates scroll past them without a second look.
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The electronics giant continued its tradition of forgoing tech specs jargon for cinematic advertising to showcase its new earbuds’ active noise cancellation feature.
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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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“Terminology.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/terminology. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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