as in informal
used in or suitable for speech and not formal writing
writes essays in a very easy-to-read, vernacular style
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Recent Examples of vernacular
Gregory Jusdanis, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2025
Almost three decades later, the Z-Man has taken on a life of its own, cementing itself in the Kansas Citian vernacular.
—Kansas City Star, 8 Aug. 2025
Andy Mitten, New York Times, 30 July 2025
Brandon Gill: There was a time between 2014 and 2022 when leftists in academia and the media would use this kind of weird, woke, far-left vernacular.
—David Weigel, semafor.com, 11 July 2025
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Adjective
Yet his first little triumph, inspired by the Phanariot poet Athanasios Christopoulos (1772-1847), gave little impression of the demoticist revolution taking place in Greek poetry at the time, namely that poets were turning to the vernacular as their medium of expression.
—Gregory Jusdanis, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2025
Almost three decades later, the Z-Man has taken on a life of its own, cementing itself in the Kansas Citian vernacular.
—Kansas City Star, 8 Aug. 2025
Noun
There are terms of affection for groups of players like the Busby Babes or Fergie’s Fledglings, but these were coined and used by journalists and not used in everyday vernacular.
—Andy Mitten, New York Times, 30 July 2025
Brandon Gill: There was a time between 2014 and 2022 when leftists in academia and the media would use this kind of weird, woke, far-left vernacular.
—David Weigel, semafor.com, 11 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vernacular
Adjective
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Mays brought the quality of Elegba’s duality to life with impeccable, almost intuitive range, dancing from whimsical embodiment to archival vernacular to colloquial ease with incredible intention and timing.—
Essence,
Essence,
17 Sep. 2025
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Today’s Wordle Etymology The word lefty is a colloquial formation from left + the diminutive/agentive suffix -y.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Meanwhile, analytical software has revolutionized linguistic inquiry, enabling greater understanding of the ways language works—when, how, and why words break out; the specific contexts for expressions and idioms.—
Stefan Fatsis,
The Atlantic,
13 Sep. 2025
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Nonnas There's a saying that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, and Joe Scaravella (Vince Vaughn) of 2025's Nonnas is the perfect depiction of the idiom.—
Jacqueline Weiss,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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There was no third option in this binomial exercise.—
Chantel Jennings,
The Athletic,
24 Mar. 2025
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She is credited with naming and cataloging hundreds of native plants in the Hudson River Valley using Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus’ then-new binomial system of botanical nomenclature.—
Jessica Damiano,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Mar. 2024
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What started out as an advertising slogan for Apple more than 15 years ago has morphed into somewhat of a modern day colloquialism: There should be an app for that.—
Katherine Fung,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Aug. 2025
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This could involve helping systems learn colloquialisms and proper usages of terms.—
Kathy Kristof,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Mar. 2025
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The term has always been a bit of a misnomer, however.—
Adam Summers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Sep. 2025
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The name is a bit of a misnomer, though—the dinner-only restaurant serves Italian fare and local seafood, not high tea service.—
Julie Tremaine,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The hard problem is explaining how and why beings have conscious, subjective experiences at all (qualia in philosophical parlance).—
Kevin Dickinson,
Big Think,
20 Aug. 2025
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One part of this process, known in Senate parlance as reconciliation, provisions legislation being moved in this manner to increase the federal deficit beyond the next 10-year budget window.—
Andrea Ruth,
The Washington Examiner,
15 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Tylenol is a brand name for the pain reliever acetaminophen.—
Jacqueline Howard,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
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Antioxidant-rich maritime pine bark extract, sometimes referred to by the brand name Pycnogenol, may also work.—
Sam Manzella,
Flow Space,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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To be clear, hip-hop in general doesn’t have a regionalism problem.—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025
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Hovering above all this is a related belief in promoting regionalism as a hedge against the flattening influence of corporate-media consolidation.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
1 Aug. 2025
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“Vernacular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vernacular. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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