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as in vocabulary
the stock of words, pronunciation, and grammar used by a people as their basic means of communication
Great Britain, the United States, Australia, and other countries where English is the dominant language
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as in terminology
the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field
"love" means "nothing" in the language of tennis
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as in diction
the way in which something is put into words
we're finding the language of the legal documents to be tough going
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The Super Bowl on TelevisaUnivision’s over-the-air broadcast network broke records, the company said, averaging 2.3 million viewers across all of its platforms, the largest audience for the Spanish language broadcast of a Super Bowl.
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Lillian Rizzo, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2024
The difference lies in the slick branding and educational language that targets vape users specifically.
—Lina Abascal, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
Legal Firms The legal industry is lagging in adopting AI, which could be effectively leveraged through technology like natural language processing for contract analysis and document review.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Some coding-specific shortcuts are also available for debugging, adding logs and comments, and translating code into other languages.
—Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 4 Oct. 2024
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Lillian Rizzo, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2024
The difference lies in the slick branding and educational language that targets vape users specifically.
—Lina Abascal, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
Legal Firms The legal industry is lagging in adopting AI, which could be effectively leveraged through technology like natural language processing for contract analysis and document review.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Some coding-specific shortcuts are also available for debugging, adding logs and comments, and translating code into other languages.
—Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 4 Oct. 2024
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“Language.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/language. Accessed 4 Nov. 2024.
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