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The unspeakable war in Europe, not yet known as World War I, was in its sixth month and had introduced miserable trench warfare to the lexicon.
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Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025
Blow Job, Sleep, Empire: with help from the Jonas Mekas propaganda wheel, these shifted the definition of beauty in the popular US lexicon: a filmed beauty, a gay beauty, a beauty of an intimate boredom.
—Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 14 Feb. 2025
Part of the reason whooping cough may not be in your everyday lexicon is because cases have dropped precipitously since a vaccine was introduced in the 1940s and included in the childhood vaccination regimen.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 13 Feb. 2025
Almost exactly two years ago, a splashy feature in the New York Times introduced the arrival of the Hype House, a collective of mostly white, attractive teenagers who had recently become famous on an app that was only just beginning to be part of the national lexicon.
—Vox Staff, Vox, 10 Jan. 2025
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Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025
Blow Job, Sleep, Empire: with help from the Jonas Mekas propaganda wheel, these shifted the definition of beauty in the popular US lexicon: a filmed beauty, a gay beauty, a beauty of an intimate boredom.
—Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 14 Feb. 2025
Part of the reason whooping cough may not be in your everyday lexicon is because cases have dropped precipitously since a vaccine was introduced in the 1940s and included in the childhood vaccination regimen.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 13 Feb. 2025
Almost exactly two years ago, a splashy feature in the New York Times introduced the arrival of the Hype House, a collective of mostly white, attractive teenagers who had recently become famous on an app that was only just beginning to be part of the national lexicon.
—Vox Staff, Vox, 10 Jan. 2025
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“Lexicon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lexicon. Accessed 15 Mar. 2025.
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