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used the argot of figure skaters
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Recent Examples of argot
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.
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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
Step by audacious step Joe Kennedy—part trimmer (in the argot of Old Boston) and part striver (in the manner portrayed in countless American success stories)—worked his way up, not always scrupulously: small-town banker, Wall Street financier, Hollywood film entrepreneur.
—David M. Shribman, WSJ, 16 July 2021
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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
Step by audacious step Joe Kennedy—part trimmer (in the argot of Old Boston) and part striver (in the manner portrayed in countless American success stories)—worked his way up, not always scrupulously: small-town banker, Wall Street financier, Hollywood film entrepreneur.
—David M. Shribman, WSJ, 16 July 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for argot
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About 70% of big businesses that have AI training focus on teaching concepts and terminology, according to Mercer’s data.Catherine McGrath, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2024
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Here’s a terminology detail: an AI accelerator can be a physical chip, like a GPU or an ASIC.John Werner, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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Jones and Brody learned Hungarian and worked with a dialect coach for the movie.Carole Horst, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024
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Turns out, dat good ole dialect is a put-on: James speaks like a professor.Rachel Flynn, People.com, 3 Dec. 2024
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McBride possesses a skill that few of his peers can claim: a vocabulary for critically analyzing screen acting and how its gestures and movements cohere with the director and cinematographer’s tools.Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 4 Dec. 2024
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The future of communicating with buyers and customers is less about impressive vocabulary and more about genuine connection.Renae Gregoire, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
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Jone [Southern slang meaning make fun, joke around].Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2024
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Previous generations of slang terms usually had one-to-one translations to, for lack of a better word, normal English.Evan Porter, Parents, 3 Dec. 2024
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For example, 22 policies (44.0%) did not include language stating that parents must be notified of incidents as soon as possible.Nolan McKendry | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 16 Dec. 2024
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Onto the page spilled more than ten thousand lines of the richest and most resourceful blank verse in the English language, arranged into ten books in 1667, then rearranged into twelve in 1674.Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
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“Argot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/argot. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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