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Recent Examples of solecism The result is global English but one without the imprecision and solecism implied by that label. Colin Marshall, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2022 And a single word couldn’t be a dead giveaway either, no matter how much people would like to portray the use of pled rather than pleaded as an obvious Trumpian solecism, especially when Dowd himself has been documented using pled at least once. Ben Zimmer, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2017 But the songwriter Tony Hatch has said he was inspired by Times Square—a solecism forgivable from a Brit. Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2017 Solecism slipped into solipsism into full-blown narcissistic projection. Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for solecism
Noun
  • Scientists have long known that DNA-copying systems make the occasional blunder—that’s how cancers often start—but only in recent years has technology been sensitive enough to catalog every genetic booboo.
    Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The blunder occurred during the triple toss-up round on Thursday, January 16.
    Aaron Rasmussen, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Daniel Weiner, the director of government and elections at the Brennan Center for Justice, said the legal deadlines were set in part so that there would be time to make revisions before the Electoral Votes were cast in the event of a mistake or legal challenge.
    Daniel Desrochers, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2025
  • That portrays the Court as an institution that has made historic mistakes on citizenship and need not be trusted as the sole authority on the meaning of the Constitution.
    Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Arsenal’s manager kept a list of Aubameyang’s indiscretions — many of them related to punctuality — and, eventually, the charge sheet was too long.
    Phil Hay, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
  • This wasn’t the first time Rosado ran into indiscretions.
    Essence, Essence, 3 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The German hit 12 unforced errors in the set as too many of his forehands skewed off his racket at the wrong angle and out of the court.
    Issy Ronald, CNN, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Keys broke three times in the first set, helped in part by Sabalenka’s four double-faults and 13 total unforced errors.
    Howard Fendrich, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2025

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“Solecism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/solecism. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.

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