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Recent Examples of slanguage
Cube talking reckless, Too $hort as the pimp with a heart of gold, E-40’s deep slanguage, and smooth ol’ Uncle Snoop: this is Mount Westmore’s appeal to their graying base.
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Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2022
Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slanguage
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Today’s teens face enough pressure without new slang emerging online to shame them.—
Melissa Willets,
Parents,
3 Feb. 2025
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Plus, since most of the app's content is in Mandarin, subtitles are suddenly rampant — as are posts from Americans who want to learn the language, including by exchanging translations of popular slang phrases with Chinese commenters.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
15 Jan. 2025
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What could be more revealing, fragile, and intimate — in any dialect — than the loneliness that pushes someone’s attempt to make a friend?—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
15 Feb. 2025
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Even today, traces of French can be found in the local dialect; the Palermitan aristocracy once spoke fluent French and frequently sent their chefs to Paris to master the art of haute cuisine.—
Tiziana Cardini,
Vogue,
27 Jan. 2025
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That means 74% of employees see problems being ignored, downplayed, or spun into meaningless corporate jargon.—
Mark Murphy,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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Interpreted another way, these drops are stacked to form a SLUSH PILE (54A), which is also jargon for a [Common assignment for editorial assistants].—
Sam Corbin,
New York Times,
5 Feb. 2025
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Knowing the correct four-word idioms is a sign of education.—
Rachel Chang,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Feb. 2025
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Glover’s score — for rock band, piano and acoustic strings — evokes pop idioms while politely sidestepping direct quotation.—
Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim,
New York Times,
20 Jan. 2025
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Brain rot is thus a strikingly capacious term, enfolding the psychological and cognitive decay wrought by screen addiction, the bacteria-like content that feeds the addiction, and the argot of a generation for whom much of this content is made.—
Jessica Winter,
The New Yorker,
16 Dec. 2024
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Many of the comments used the argot of the online far right.—
David D. Kirkpatrick,
The New Yorker,
18 Aug. 2024
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In business parlance, intent could be reflected through transparently communicating the policies, systems and controls implemented for data privacy and ethics, and also by communicating any gaps and how they will be addressed.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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The financial brokers who handle such trades have demanded that exporters hand over more cash toward settling up their losses — a margin call, in financial parlance.—
Peter S. Goodman,
New York Times,
22 Feb. 2025
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Dishes like orange chicken and General Tso’s chicken became part of the greater American culinary vernacular in the woks of the Panda restaurants.—
Jenn Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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In the 53 years since the Baker Act took effect, the statute authored by late lawmaker Maxine Baker has entered the Florida vernacular as a verb.—
Carol Marbin Miller,
Miami Herald,
2 Jan. 2025
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And so there’s West Indian patois and language and music and food.—
Vanessa Franko,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jan. 2025
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There are countless examples like these, in which English scaffolding has adapted to the demands and the cultural heritage of its speakers, from Jamaican patois to Tok Pisin, of New Guinea.—
Manvir Singh,
The New Yorker,
23 Dec. 2024
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“Slanguage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slanguage. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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