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Recent Examples of loanword
In fact, Mandarin itself used thousands of loanwords from Japanese and English when new disciplines such as sociology and natural science entered China’s curricula a mere century ago.
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Tenzin Dorjee, Foreign Affairs, 28 Nov. 2023
During this period, more than 10,000 loanwords from French entered the English language, mostly in domains where the aristocracy held sway: the arts, military, medicine, law and religion.
—Phillip M. Carter, Fortune Well, 12 June 2023
Most English loanwords borrow from languages that, like English, use the Latin alphabet.
—Sarah Bunin Benor, The Conversation, 21 May 2020
With the mega-success of Starbucks and its various coffee competitors, BARISTA has transformed from a somewhat niche Italian loanword to a term most everyone not only knows but uses regularly.
—Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2019
And so the language planners, led by linguist Ari Páll Kristinsson, are working furiously to match every English word or concept with an Icelandic one—giving young Icelanders no excuse for depending on loanwords learned online.
—Caitlin Hu, Quartz, 2 June 2019
Each provided loanwords, words adopted from a donor language without translation.
—Courtney Linder, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Apr. 2018
Local journalists describe the scenes here as the local telenovela, a Spanish loanword meaning soap opera.
—Joseph Hincks / Manila, Time, 27 Oct. 2017
Sadly, these words failed to stick, and nowadays one is forced to answer wrong numbers on a loanword: tilifun.
—Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2017
Tenzin Dorjee, Foreign Affairs, 28 Nov. 2023
During this period, more than 10,000 loanwords from French entered the English language, mostly in domains where the aristocracy held sway: the arts, military, medicine, law and religion.
—Phillip M. Carter, Fortune Well, 12 June 2023
Most English loanwords borrow from languages that, like English, use the Latin alphabet.
—Sarah Bunin Benor, The Conversation, 21 May 2020
With the mega-success of Starbucks and its various coffee competitors, BARISTA has transformed from a somewhat niche Italian loanword to a term most everyone not only knows but uses regularly.
—Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2019
And so the language planners, led by linguist Ari Páll Kristinsson, are working furiously to match every English word or concept with an Icelandic one—giving young Icelanders no excuse for depending on loanwords learned online.
—Caitlin Hu, Quartz, 2 June 2019
Each provided loanwords, words adopted from a donor language without translation.
—Courtney Linder, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Apr. 2018
Local journalists describe the scenes here as the local telenovela, a Spanish loanword meaning soap opera.
—Joseph Hincks / Manila, Time, 27 Oct. 2017
Sadly, these words failed to stick, and nowadays one is forced to answer wrong numbers on a loanword: tilifun.
—Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for loanword
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Pepperberg demonstrated that Alex asked questions, performed simple addition and, in a few instances, coined neologisms.Camille Bromley Gabra Zackman Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
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As a host, Scherzinger could play the eager theater kid to the likes of the intimidating Simon Cowell, throwing out neologisms like schamazing.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2024
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It was presumably dropped into the federal melting pot to become the first but unacknowledged coinage of California gold.Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
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The bottom line is, printing paper money or minting token coinage is easy profitable technology, but you are just not allowed to do it; that is the direction of travel at present.Clem Chambers, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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There is even a colloquialism for those who curry favor among the moneyed on the island of Palm Beach.Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
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It’s been a year of chaos and colloquialisms, as the internet shaped not only our vocabulary but our entire political system.Kate Lindsay, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2025
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Collision, as used by PST ART, is tech-bro speak, a euphemism, like the buzzword disruption, that promises the creation of new, exciting opportunities while minimizing the severity of moral quandaries and social ills.Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2025
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For example, Walker explains to Juliette that people on the lower levels favor plain speaking over bureaucratic euphemisms.Noel Murray, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2024
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Narrator Mary Lewis, raised in Newfoundland herself, delivers the book in a manner that seems stilted at first but grows more appealing as Lewis moves further into the story, with its pleasing archaisms and evocation of balked communication.Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2020
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That phrase, which may strike some young American ears as an archaism if not an oxymoron, is worth unpacking, and Amis provides readers with a pocket account of the historical preconditions of his extravagant fame.A.O. SCOTT, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2018
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Barkley could be the deciding factor in terms of getting the team to another Super Bowl appearance.Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
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Cuba’s diplomats have vigorously pursued nixing the island nation from the list during Biden’s term in the Oval Office.Filip Timotija, The Hill, 15 Jan. 2025
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The Guggenheim Bilbao will present a major survey show dedicated to Tarsila do Amaral (b. 1886; d. 1973), a key figure of Brazilian modernism whose work is also being featured in Brasil!Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
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Lebedev is more in line with the lessons of modernism and postmodernism than literary yarn-weavers like yours truly.Boris Fishman, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
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“Loanword.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loanword. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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