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the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field
tends to use too much hacker's slang when talking to coworkers about their computer problems
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Recent Examples of slang
Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2025
Twain dared to buck the expectations of critics by using the colloquial dialect and slang of those with little education.
—Kyra Davis Lurie
june 11, Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
Some stems from that, and then some stems from being around Pacific Islanders all day and other Samoans and Hawaiians and different dialects and different slang.
—Rebecca Jennings, Vulture, 11 June 2025
Boasting co-signs from global icons like J Balvin and Dua Lipa, the Santiago native has parlayed the freshness of Chilean slang into the mainstream reggaeton lexicon, and an eagerness to reconnect with his African roots is also spurring curiosity and constant innovation.
—Richard Villegas, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2025
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But ‘dust’ also has another meaning in [Thai] slang.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2025
Twain dared to buck the expectations of critics by using the colloquial dialect and slang of those with little education.
—Kyra Davis Lurie
june 11, Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
Some stems from that, and then some stems from being around Pacific Islanders all day and other Samoans and Hawaiians and different dialects and different slang.
—Rebecca Jennings, Vulture, 11 June 2025
Boasting co-signs from global icons like J Balvin and Dua Lipa, the Santiago native has parlayed the freshness of Chilean slang into the mainstream reggaeton lexicon, and an eagerness to reconnect with his African roots is also spurring curiosity and constant innovation.
—Richard Villegas, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slang
Noun
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Over time, the confusing terminology—agentic AI, agent AI, generative AI—will fade.—
Shaz Khan,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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Five other experts that Popular Science corresponded with for this article all agree on this ‘crisis’ terminology.—
Lauren Leffer,
Popular Science,
29 May 2025
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In it, Italian peasants Matteo and Natale discuss this same cosmic occurrence in the rustic Paduan dialect of the time.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
3 July 2025
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Around the table, his family speak the local dialect of the Veneto region.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
30 June 2025
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During the Cold War, popular culture provided Americans with images of (and a vocabulary for) nuclear war.—
Tom Nichols,
The Atlantic,
10 July 2025
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Babbel isn’t like those free apps that flood you with random vocabulary.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
8 July 2025
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It was trained on the entire Internet to pull out statistical patterns in the language usage.—
Alex Morris,
Rolling Stone,
14 July 2025
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Adding classes in Spanish for those who read, write and speak it as their first language is another part of the plan to make schooling at CLC both more affordable and less challenging.—
Steve Sadin,
Chicago Tribune,
14 July 2025
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“Slang.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slang. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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