How to Use neologism in a Sentence
neologism
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Does the definition match the part of speech of the neologism?
—Pat Myers, Washington Post, 30 June 2022
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Gender-neutral neologisms like ha, hizzer, E, shim, thare, um and ita never even left the hangar.
—Time, 17 Jan. 2020
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The Savage neologism later made news in the runup to the 2012 presidential election.
—Kyle Peterson, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2018
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This week’s contest — to transpose two letters in a word or phrase — has often been an option in our change-a-letter neologism contests over the years.
—Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
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Coining neologisms was and still is one of Coupland’s things.
—Laura Miller, Slate Magazine, 15 May 2017
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The key is that there are 24 different permutations of the letters, and even ones like DBIE can work because the neologism could be a multi-word phrase as well as a single word, and the block can stretch over a space.
—Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022
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But there is a strain of wishful thinking in the idea that neologisms, revamped grammars, could effect better living.
—Elisa Gabbert, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
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Instead, these books feature a new kind of mutant—wonky business writers endowed with bulging brainpans and killer neologisms.
—Jennifer Alsever, WIRED, 29 Mar. 2011
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To Walker's amusement, his book sometimes appeared in the art instruction section of bookstores, and his neologisms would pop up in discussions about the art of cartooning.
—Ali Bahrampour, chicagotribune.com, 27 Jan. 2018
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The segment also feels dated, strangled by the unimaginative neologism of the fraught summer that preceded it.
—The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
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Leave it to northern Europeans to come up with a neologism to describe a complicated emotional state.
—Lisa Abend, Time, 1 Aug. 2019
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Shunkaryougen — a Japanese four-kanji neologism coined by Haru herself — will be released digitally and as a 12-inch vinyl.
—Billboard Japan, Billboard, 15 Feb. 2022
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Richard Nolle invented the neologism for an article published in Dell Horoscope magazine in 1979.
—Jo Craven McGinty, WSJ, 4 June 2021
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But the word sovranismo, a neologism that entered the common political discourse in the past couple of years, denotes something more radical than nationalism.
—Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 17 July 2019
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Some of the lexicon’s most provocative moments involve recent neologisms.
—Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2020
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In recent months rumors had abounded that a fifth column—a neologism to Britain at the time, now universally understood to refer to traitors living within their country of asylum—had assisted the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
—Simon Parkin, Time, 2 Nov. 2022
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The neologism also offered a useful means of describing and studying how the impacts of climate change reach beyond tangible, physical, and economic damages.
—Madeline Ostrander, The Atlantic, 23 July 2022
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Fake news — a neologism to describe stories that are just not true, like Pizzagate, and a term now co-opted to characterize unfavorable news — has given new urgency to the teaching of media literacy.
—Interview By Sydney Ember, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2017
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Unfortunately, not all neologisms are as adorkable as, well, adorkable.
—Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 July 2018
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Unaware of any word that could describe her situation, Webster saw an opportunity for neologism.
—Michelle Nijhuis, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2017
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These neologisms have confused many a parent, grandparent, language-purists, and yes, even editors of prominent digital publications.
—Sanaya Chandar, Quartz India, 6 Dec. 2019
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Allusions, dramatic asides, neologisms and flamboyant punctuation became the hallmarks of his style.
—Thomas Curwen, sacbee, 15 May 2018
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The internet neologism, coined to describe the wearing of utilitarian, outdoor-minded clothing in everyday situations, feels very 2023.
—Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 31 Jan. 2023
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