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Recent Examples of terminology
Rolling back the terminology means reprinting guidance, rewriting websites, and retraining staff—all at a time when health budgets have tightened.
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Dr. Nikki Romanik, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
The same applies to some of the terminology, such as the Lake Erie Renewable Energy Resilience Project.
—Craig Rucker, Boston Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
In Marx’s terminology, this is a form of capital fetishism.
—Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
That terminology has always bothered me.
—Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
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Dr. Nikki Romanik, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
The same applies to some of the terminology, such as the Lake Erie Renewable Energy Resilience Project.
—Craig Rucker, Boston Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
In Marx’s terminology, this is a form of capital fetishism.
—Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
That terminology has always bothered me.
—Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for terminology
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At play in Gómez’s case is a decades-old immigration law that uses arcane vocabulary.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN Money,
25 Oct. 2025
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These acts of radical playfulness—the inflatable dance parties, the music, the absurdity—have become part of the city’s moral vocabulary.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
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But Simeon Silverio, former publisher of the San Diego Asian Journal, said Bayani reflects only one of many Filipino dialects and would fail to represent the country’s diverse cultural groups, each of which has its own word for hero.—
Walker Armstrong,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Oct. 2025
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Even something as simple as the Chicago dialect and John Gacy’s individual odd, idiosyncratic way of speaking.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Oct. 2025
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One of the most basic versions is a progressive relaxation technique, a countdown from 10 to 1 where Perri uses what are known as hypnotic language patterns.—
Rustin Dodd,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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The hotline is available 24/7 in more than 170 languages.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
23 Oct. 2025
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Every generation invents its own slang, and language evolves in ways most of us will never consciously perceive, Jones said.—
Scottie Andrew,
CNN Money,
18 Oct. 2025
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What other slang does Gen Alpha use?—
Mariyam Muhammad,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
8 Oct. 2025
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Once the threat level jumps to Defcon 1, so does the movie, and the cross-cutting between various parties issuing emergency orders and assessing the situation in terse acronym-heavy jargon begins in earnest.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
24 Oct. 2025
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Their language was neutral and polished, laced with political jargon.—
Andrew Rojecki,
The Conversation,
21 Oct. 2025
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Music unites the interconnecting stories in this saga and expands its passions, with a sumptuous score by composer Stephen Flaherty and lyricist Lynn Ahrens that taps into a wide range of American styles, idioms and amalgams, even as the second act turns more dissonant.—
Frank Rizzo,
Variety,
17 Oct. 2025
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The history of labor struggle, infused with religious idioms, is a source of identity and values evident in everything from union meetings in churches to prayers on picket lines.—
The Conversation,
The Conversation,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Terminology.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/terminology. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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