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Following its publication, health experts and trans advocates heavily criticized the Cass Review for anti-trans bias and numerous, repeated inaccuracies in its analyses and terminology.
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Samantha Riedel, Them, 11 Dec. 2024
Sometimes, they're stated in legal terminology that's hard to decipher.
—Hope Karnopp, Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2024
Mirror the terminology used in the job posting to reflect your alignment with the company’s objectives.
—Andrew Fennell, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
Invoking scammers’ derogatory terminology, though, is dehumanizing and further perpetuates the stigma that many scam victims feel about having been deceived.
—Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 17 Dec. 2024
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Samantha Riedel, Them, 11 Dec. 2024
Sometimes, they're stated in legal terminology that's hard to decipher.
—Hope Karnopp, Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2024
Mirror the terminology used in the job posting to reflect your alignment with the company’s objectives.
—Andrew Fennell, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
Invoking scammers’ derogatory terminology, though, is dehumanizing and further perpetuates the stigma that many scam victims feel about having been deceived.
—Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 17 Dec. 2024
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Gone will be the complex vocabulary that has often kept these issues in the hands of technical teams.Andrew Fingerman, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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At Notre Dame, the Irish use similar vocabulary and techniques on defense and special teams.Matt Baker, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
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The body of water first showed up on European maps in the 1500s and has had at least 32 names in different languages and dialects throughout the years.Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
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Much of the driving dialogue is in Irish, and most importantly, in the Ulster dialect.Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 29 Dec. 2024
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Part of the reason behind that was to control for differences between morphologically rich languages, where a single word may correspond to multiple words in morphologically simple languages.Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 15 Jan. 2025
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Some 240 people work there in various tech startups, AI incubators and food science labs, conducting research and business in at least 14 languages.Ann Abel, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
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Anchored by Hailee Steinfeld’s charmingly sly title performance, the series cleverly enmeshes Dickinson’s indelible poetry with everyday frustrations (parents, crushes), world-historical occasions (the Civil War) and thoroughly modern slang.Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2025
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Both the real and digital worlds are constantly evolving, and Gen Alpha (and the generations after them) will continue to bring in their own slang and cultural references, which often leave older generations feeling out of the loop.Gilda D'Incerti, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
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Technical jargon of any type can feel overwhelming and make even the most intelligent person feel out of touch.Steve Gickling, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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Making these oversized elephants dance will take way more than slashing budgets and slapping agile jargon on the all-hands PowerPoint presentations.Greg Orme, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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For instance, the grammar and translation method has been modernized to help students grasp complex concepts like abstract words, idioms and metaphors.Geoffrey Alphonso, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
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As romantic nationalism surged, scholars travelled the country collecting fairy tales, folk songs, local idioms, and traditional crafts.Caitlyn Murphy, Hazlitt, 18 Dec. 2024
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“Terminology.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/terminology. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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