polysyllable

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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Tam argues that these speech forms are not just dialects but distinct languages, as different from one another as many of the languages spoken in Europe.
    Gina Anne Tam, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2021
  • This system frees up space for speeches to be more interesting, as seen in Sheryl Lee Ralph’s musical interpolation of the acceptance-speech form.
    Vulture, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2022
Noun
  • 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
  • For example, Walker explains to Juliette that people on the lower levels favor plain speaking over bureaucratic euphemisms.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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.
    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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • And so, while the two talked at and around Andy Warhol and to each other, Warhol sat with his tiny dachshund, Archie Bunker, in his lap and snapped the reporters’ pictures with his new Polaroid camera, answering direct questions with shrugs or vague monosyllables.
    Stephen Birmingham, Town & Country, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Hearing this jab of monosyllables is like being poked in the eye.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2023
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“Polysyllable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polysyllable. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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