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Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2024
Today’s groups are... Yellow group — areas on a golf course
Green group — slang for home run
Blue group — D.C. sports teams
Purple group — teams that share names with cars
Today’s Connections: Sports Edition Answers?
Spoiler alert!
—Kris Holt, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
Avoid slang terms, but let your personality come through your writing.
—Allie Volpe, Vox, 19 Sep. 2024
Such dunks, as Internet slang would put it, are primed to be shared gleefully beyond Truth Social, a performance directed at the whole of social media.
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2024
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Watch on Deadline Of course, fans of the 2004 Tina Fey hit will remember Gretchen’s unsupported efforts to make a slang word popular.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2024
Today’s groups are... Yellow group — areas on a golf course
Green group — slang for home run
Blue group — D.C. sports teams
Purple group — teams that share names with cars
Today’s Connections: Sports Edition Answers?
Spoiler alert!
—Kris Holt, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
Avoid slang terms, but let your personality come through your writing.
—Allie Volpe, Vox, 19 Sep. 2024
Such dunks, as Internet slang would put it, are primed to be shared gleefully beyond Truth Social, a performance directed at the whole of social media.
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2024
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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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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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Beat communicated with advanced and exotic languages, its wide-ranging vocabulary including experimental, art-rock,pop, jazz, funk, new-wave and gamelan elements.Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2024
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But, as historian Robert O. Smith writes, since the phrase entered the country’s vocabulary, some Jewish Americans have firmly objected to it.Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 27 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.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slang. Accessed 20 Nov. 2024.
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