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Recent Examples of lingo National security advisers have the advantage of proximity to the president, with an office footsteps from the Oval, as it is known in Washington lingo. Gregory F. Treverton, The Conversation, 5 May 2025 But true bookworms quit books so often that there’s lingo for it in the book world: DNF, for Do Not Finish or Did Not Finish. Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 21 Feb. 2025 This week, Lawrence Burney steps in to talk about how a part of Baltimore lingo is entering the wider underground rap lexicon through artists from the Mid-Atlantic. Lawrence Burney, Pitchfork, 18 Apr. 2025 Star Trek Trekkie Lingo Prompting An unusual discovery by researchers showcased that using Star Trek Trekkie lingo in your prompts can improve generative AI results. Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lingo
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Noun
  • According to the California Library Association, summer reading programs help children and teens retain and enhance their reading skills over the summer and benefit adults by stimulating the brain, increasing vocabulary and sparking imagination.
    Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 16 June 2025
  • For much of the past 1,000 years, Yiddish was spoken by three quarters of the world’s Jews — a Germanic vernacular, seasoned with Hebrew, Slavic and Romance vocabulary, that bridged polyglot Jewish communities in Central and Eastern Europe and followed them to the far corners of the diaspora.
    Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • After all, ocean issues can involve sophisticated terminology that may make newcomers hesitant to follow along.
    Simi Thambi​, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
  • District 3 Board Member Ann Maine, while in support of the assessment’s goal, questioned if different terminology could be used for the same result to avoid undue attention from the national level.
    Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • Strip out all corporate language, jargon, and unnecessary words.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
  • Because perhaps heartbreak is not only a curse, but also a language.
    Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • Some stems from that, and then some stems from being around Pacific Islanders all day and other Samoans and Hawaiians and different dialects and different slang.
    Rebecca Jennings, Vulture, 11 June 2025
  • And last summer, Ferrari executives reportedly received WhatsApp voice messages mimicking their CEO’s voice, down to the regional dialect.
    Anisha Sircar, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • The three musketeers became the ‘Fab Four’… Princess Catherine [silently] cannot understand why Prince Harry still won't bite his tongue and continues his destructive path.
    Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 9 June 2025
  • Gone is the tongue and so too the Three Stripes, mustache and textured toe.
    Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • Twain dared to buck the expectations of critics by using the colloquial dialect and slang of those with little education.
    Kyra Davis Lurie June 11, Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
  • Some stems from that, and then some stems from being around Pacific Islanders all day and other Samoans and Hawaiians and different dialects and different slang.
    Rebecca Jennings, Vulture, 11 June 2025
Noun
  • Unleashing Wood has ushered in an exciting new phase for a widely influential band that has defined a state-of-the-art jazz idiom deeply engaged with other genres.
    Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 23 May 2025
  • Scientists analyzed recordings of three groups of chimpanzees living in the Ivory Coast and found that chimps can combine their hoots, grunts and calls in a similar way to how humans use idioms or change the order of words to build new phrases.
    Evan Bush, NBC news, 11 May 2025

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“Lingo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lingo. Accessed 26 Jun. 2025.

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