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the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field
I don't understand a lot of computer jargon
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Recent Examples of jargon
Damon Stafford, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
Sometimes courts refuse to enforce these types of clauses if they are cloaked in confusing legal jargon or tiresomely require a ticket holder to read another document in order to learn important details.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 20 July 2024
Recode Staff, Recode, 13 June 2018
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Noun
Too many folks want to be the big shot enterprise salesperson, talking high-level jargon and playing golf with clients.
—Damon Stafford, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
Sometimes courts refuse to enforce these types of clauses if they are cloaked in confusing legal jargon or tiresomely require a ticket holder to read another document in order to learn important details.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 20 July 2024
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That’s like the same thing that happened in 2008 when everybody was bedazzled by all these Wall Street jargon terms like collateralized debt obligations.
—Recode Staff, Recode, 13 June 2018
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Cap’n Don Johnson is alerted at the brig (terminology check?) and orders the ship to drop buoys, informing us that only 15 percent of overboard cases survive.Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
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That, and a diet of 1970s and 1980s ‘exploitation movies,’ or ‘genre titles’ to use contemporary terminology.Patrick Frater, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
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Because, really, who doesn't love digging into a favorite dish while feeling the breeze against their cheek, the birds chirping, and the grass under their toes?Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 25 Oct. 2024
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For nearly an hour, there were no sounds—no laughs, no cricket chirps, no ticking of a clock.Jack Handey, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
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Regrettably, the catchy moniker has slinked into our vocabulary, and we are seemingly stuck with it.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
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The reports began introducing the rhetoric of climate change straight into the heart of the far right’s vocabulary.Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 19 Oct. 2024
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The delightful elocution of their dry-as-martini witticisms (dialect coach Nancy Carlin) adds to the joys of this period piece.Karen D'Souza, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
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Scholars say their separation from the mainland caused residents to retain much of their African heritage, including their unique dialect and skills and crafts such as cast-net fishing and basket-weaving.Russ Bynum and Emily Wagster Pettus, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2024
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Yet research suggests that children up to age 5 can learn and process up to five languages.Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024
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Luckily, just in time, Nick whispers the one word in the (British) English language that instantly turns back the clock.Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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Slang terms for marijuana Pot, Mary Jane, grass, reefer, green, hash, ganja and doobie are just a few of the ever-growing list of slang terms used in exchange for marijuana.Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
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Fact checked by Sarah Scott Parents of tweens and teens like me are always in need of a brush up on current slang terms, such as lala bop, and rizz.Melissa Willets, Parents, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Jargon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jargon. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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