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the manner of speech used by a particular group of people
In military parlance, "bug out" means "to retreat." They spoke the parlance of those in the technology industry.
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Recent Examples of parlance
Through a melodic flow of political parlance and an impressive stable of sprightly actors, creator Debora Cahn stages a spirited play about political relationships — and relationship politics — that never feels stodgy or stupefying, despite an ungodly amount of dialogue.
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2024
In investing parlance, that’s often called a sum-of-the-parts valuation.
—Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 9 Oct. 2024
Typically, swimming events occur the first week of the Olympics and track and field (or athletics, in Olympic parlance) the second.
—Cindy Kuzma, SELF, 13 Aug. 2024
Each inaugural visit also comes with a 15-minute health assessment with a provider, called a Healer in the company’s parlance, with add-ons like cupping and ear seeding also available.
—James Manso, WWD, 29 Oct. 2024
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2024
In investing parlance, that’s often called a sum-of-the-parts valuation.
—Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 9 Oct. 2024
Typically, swimming events occur the first week of the Olympics and track and field (or athletics, in Olympic parlance) the second.
—Cindy Kuzma, SELF, 13 Aug. 2024
Each inaugural visit also comes with a 15-minute health assessment with a provider, called a Healer in the company’s parlance, with add-ons like cupping and ear seeding also available.
—James Manso, WWD, 29 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parlance
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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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While still young, he was drawn to the body and Black vernaculars of motion, ultimately creating a language that incorporated ballet, tap, and contemporary dance.Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2024
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Comparatively, while New Hampshire is quiet, with a small core group of practitioners working in regional vernaculars, Maine and Vermont boast a disproportionate number of architects—Elliott Architects and Birdseye among them—engaged in custom residential equal to that of the nation’s highest.Richard Olsen, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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The versatile, always-all-in Mars is a worthy lodestar for Rosé and Rosie, an album that whirls through 21st-century pop idioms with aplomb even as its heroine ruminates on heartache and anxiety.Maura Johnston, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2024
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Perhaps that’s why his debut album as Chanel Beads is filled with self-help idioms and reflections on internal conflicts.Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 3 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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Use neutral, factual language to ensure the message remains honest and unbiased.Tina Gada, Forbes, 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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“Parlance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parlance. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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