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Recent Examples of slanguage
Cube talking reckless, Too $hort as the pimp with a heart of gold, E-40’s deep slanguage, and smooth ol’ Uncle Snoop: this is Mount Westmore’s appeal to their graying base.
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Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2022
Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slanguage
Noun
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Today’s teens face enough pressure without new slang emerging online to shame them.—
Melissa Willets,
Parents,
3 Feb. 2025
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Although challenges remain, future systems trained on greater amounts of non-English data could be capable of discerning subtle differences between dialects and understanding the meaning and cultural context of slang or Internet memes.—
Anne Neuberger,
Foreign Affairs,
15 Jan. 2025
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That potential exists even moreso in soccer than in most other North American pro sports, given the limitless potential for mixing of languages, accents and even disparity of meanings based on dialect.—
Ian Nicholas Quillen,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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Madison, who won the Oscar for Best Actress, learned Russian, worked with a dialect coach to master the Brooklyn accent, shadowed real dancers, and even installed a pole in her living room for the role.—
Kalia Richardson,
Rolling Stone,
2 Mar. 2025
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However, even the most robust policies can fall short if they’re hidden in fine print or presented in dense legal jargon.—
Mohamed Lazzouni,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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That means 74% of employees see problems being ignored, downplayed, or spun into meaningless corporate jargon.—
Mark Murphy,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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While often used sarcastically to mock true believers, the idiom reflects Italy’s enduring ambiguity toward Fascism, even 80 years after its fall.—
Mattia Ferraresi,
airmail.news,
1 Feb. 2025
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Knowing the correct four-word idioms is a sign of education.—
Rachel Chang,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Feb. 2025
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Brain rot is thus a strikingly capacious term, enfolding the psychological and cognitive decay wrought by screen addiction, the bacteria-like content that feeds the addiction, and the argot of a generation for whom much of this content is made.—
Jessica Winter,
The New Yorker,
16 Dec. 2024
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Many of the comments used the argot of the online far right.—
David D. Kirkpatrick,
The New Yorker,
18 Aug. 2024
Noun
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The parlance for this technique is that it is considered autoregressive.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
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In policy parlance, a put would imply that Trump would try to stop market selling at some point.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
7 Mar. 2025
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Dishes like orange chicken and General Tso’s chicken became part of the greater American culinary vernacular in the woks of the Panda restaurants.—
Jenn Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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In the 53 years since the Baker Act took effect, the statute authored by late lawmaker Maxine Baker has entered the Florida vernacular as a verb.—
Carol Marbin Miller,
Miami Herald,
2 Jan. 2025
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And so there’s West Indian patois and language and music and food.—
Vanessa Franko,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jan. 2025
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There are countless examples like these, in which English scaffolding has adapted to the demands and the cultural heritage of its speakers, from Jamaican patois to Tok Pisin, of New Guinea.—
Manvir Singh,
The New Yorker,
23 Dec. 2024
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“Slanguage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slanguage. Accessed 15 Mar. 2025.
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