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used the argot of figure skaters
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Recent Examples of argot
In fact, to use the argot of finance as well as meteorology, it might be said that as of Friday afternoon, Washington was officially about 28 percent below average atmospheric liquidity.
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Martin Weil, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2023
In an excerpt from her forthcoming memoir, How to Say Babylon, poet Safiya Sinclair recounts her upbringing in Jamaica—a life under livity, to use the argot of her parents’ adoptive Rastafarian tradition.
—Peter Rubin, Longreads, 1 Aug. 2023
These are the argot of the trade for just about any statesman or practitioner of diplomacy, politics, and business.
—Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2022
In the argot of the credit bureaus, tradelines are just another word for all the accounts listed on a credit report — credit cards, loans and mortgages are all tradelines.
—Mya Frazier, New York Times, 7 June 2023
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Martin Weil, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2023
In an excerpt from her forthcoming memoir, How to Say Babylon, poet Safiya Sinclair recounts her upbringing in Jamaica—a life under livity, to use the argot of her parents’ adoptive Rastafarian tradition.
—Peter Rubin, Longreads, 1 Aug. 2023
These are the argot of the trade for just about any statesman or practitioner of diplomacy, politics, and business.
—Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2022
In the argot of the credit bureaus, tradelines are just another word for all the accounts listed on a credit report — credit cards, loans and mortgages are all tradelines.
—Mya Frazier, New York Times, 7 June 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for argot
Noun
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This can hamper an enterprise’s ability to differentiate its services, particularly when specialized tasks or industry-specific terminology are involved.—
Eli David,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
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Sailing lessons: Learn basic sailing skills and terminology from the instructors of the Central Florida Community Sailing Program during this six-session class.—
Joe Rassel,
Orlando Sentinel,
19 Mar. 2025
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The interview was conducted in a mixture of English and Low German, a dialect widely spoken within the Christian Mennonite community.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
22 Mar. 2025
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While Zubac is from Croatia and Bogdanovic is Serbian, their native Balkan language is the same but spoken with different dialects.—
Janis Carr,
Orange County Register,
20 Mar. 2025
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English speakers also adapted vocabulary from the Vikings.—
Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi,
Discover Magazine,
11 Mar. 2025
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One minor but effective way to sound more assertive is to nix hedging language from your vocabulary, Barbara Shabazz, PsyD, clinical psychologist based in Virginia Beach, tells SELF.—
Jenna Ryu,
SELF,
5 Mar. 2025
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An article in the Wall Street Journal outlines Generation Beta’s dilemma: In current teen slang—used by Generation Alpha—calling someone a beta isn’t exactly a compliment.—
Elisabeth Sherman,
Parents,
7 Mar. 2025
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The topics range from decoding teenage slang to the viral generation challenge.—
Kayla Grant,
People.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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Users will be able to create their AI Twin in a few minutes by taking a selfie and talking for a few minutes introducing themselves and an AI Twin of them is created that can talk, chat, and sound just like them and can talk in 32 languages.—
Elizabeth Stanton,
FOXNews.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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Martin’s shows look and sound for the most part like any other cable news roundtable shows – except for the salty language.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Argot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/argot. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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