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Recent Examples of terminology
Parental control settings on iPhones and Android phones are notoriously complicated, with options scattered across different menus and unclear technical terminology.
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Parmy Olson, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2025
This means developing models that can interpret industry-specific terminology, understand company protocols, and engage in meaningful dialogue with employees across different departments.
—Quora, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
White the terminology may have gotten more specific, the ‘ballet’ sneaker has a design lineage that stretches back to such iconic styles as the Puma Speedcat and Onitsuka Tiger’s Mexico 66.
—Naomi Rougeau, Robb Report, 14 Apr. 2025
Or, using the terminology from earlier, potting media has a higher water potential than clay particles.
—Markis Hill, Kansas City Star, 11 Apr. 2025
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Parmy Olson, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2025
This means developing models that can interpret industry-specific terminology, understand company protocols, and engage in meaningful dialogue with employees across different departments.
—Quora, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
White the terminology may have gotten more specific, the ‘ballet’ sneaker has a design lineage that stretches back to such iconic styles as the Puma Speedcat and Onitsuka Tiger’s Mexico 66.
—Naomi Rougeau, Robb Report, 14 Apr. 2025
Or, using the terminology from earlier, potting media has a higher water potential than clay particles.
—Markis Hill, Kansas City Star, 11 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for terminology
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The worst insults in his vocabulary, however, remain G-rated.—
Natalie Krebs,
Outdoor Life,
8 May 2025
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With pan dulce baking in the oven and music in the air, this bilingual song introduces little ones to the joy of cooking with loved ones, family traditions, and beginner Spanish vocabulary.—
Fiona Tapp,
Parents,
8 May 2025
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The versatility in dialects in these tracks—from Moroccan to Khaleeji Arabic—reflects his fluency, not just linguistically but musically, across several continents.—
Maha ElNabawi,
Billboard,
29 Apr. 2025
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The technology differentiated among different dialects in Lebanon to gauge public reaction, helping Israel to assess if there was public pressure for a counterstrike.—
Sheera Frenkel,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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According to the federal government, California is home to the largest number of international students, and the most popular majors among international students are computer science, language, and business administration and management.—
Jennifer Borresen,
USA Today,
4 May 2025
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In addition to sculpture and installation, Nkanga is also a poet; a role that deepens her intuitive, layered relationship to language and form.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
3 May 2025
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But there’s a whole lot of other slang spoken around here.—
Wendy Wisner,
Parents,
12 May 2025
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The name of the new bourbon is Darts, which is a slang term for cigarettes that seems to be more common among Canadians and Australians than Americans.—
Jonah Flicker,
Robb Report,
4 May 2025
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The war that Trump is waging is cultural, based not on complex legal jargon but on feelings.—
Grace Byron,
New Yorker,
29 Apr. 2025
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The semantic layer maps business-level definitions, key performance indicators (KPIs) and organizational corporate jargon to data fields.—
Artyom Keydunov,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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Even names, idioms, and cultural references are sometimes exoticized or reduced to caricatures, reinforcing narrow or misleading representations.—
Diana Spehar,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
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At that time, writers like Ashbery and Frank O’Hara were helping to establish a new idiom in American poetry, something serious without self-seriousness: the new poetry was open to the city’s rhythms, irreverent but tender—and clearly, if not openly, gay.—
David S. Wallace,
The New Yorker,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Terminology.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/terminology. Accessed 15 May. 2025.
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