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used in or suitable for speech and not formal writing
writes essays in a very easy-to-read, vernacular style
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Recent Examples of vernacular
Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 30 July 2024
Amaral’s unclassifiable work combines Modernist principles with pre-Columbian art and the vernacular traditions of her country.
—Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 19 Oct. 2024
Allegiances are often cloaked in the vernacular of America’s founding patriots.
—Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
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Halsey does not make Pedrosa’s mistake of trying to uplift vernacular aesthetics for a fine art context which, while endeavoring to flatten certain kinds of hierarchies, can ultimately reinforce them instead.
—Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 30 July 2024
Amaral’s unclassifiable work combines Modernist principles with pre-Columbian art and the vernacular traditions of her country.
—Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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Several years ago, when climate change was beginning to emerge in the vernacular of the extreme right, Taylor’s publications began to reflect his own thoughts on the implications of the warming world.
—Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 19 Oct. 2024
Allegiances are often cloaked in the vernacular of America’s founding patriots.
—Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
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Today’s Connections groups are... Yellow group — baffle Green group — curse Blue group — Toy Story characters, familiarly Purple group — colloquial suffixes What Are Today’s Connections Answers? Spoiler alert!Kris Holt, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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Ortiz helped Clark use colloquial Spanish, so some of the songs use slang most commonly used in Mexico.Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 3 Dec. 2024
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The versatile, always-all-in Mars is a worthy lodestar for Rosé and Rosie, an album that whirls through 21st-century pop idioms with aplomb even as its heroine ruminates on heartache and anxiety.Maura Johnston, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2024
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Perhaps that’s why his debut album as Chanel Beads is filled with self-help idioms and reflections on internal conflicts.Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 3 Dec. 2024
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She is credited with naming and cataloging hundreds of native plants in the Hudson River Valley using Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus’ then-new binomial system of botanical nomenclature.Jessica Damiano, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2024
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The watermelons grown in the United States were soon subsumed under the same Latin binomial.Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2021
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Kam understood the regional colloquialism assignment!Cindi Andrews and Katie Wissman, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Nov. 2024
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The fine line between being relatable to your audience and appearing unprofessional by going against consumer preferences to formality by using slang, colloquialisms, or informalities can potentially damage brand growth with both new and existing consumers.Gary Drenik, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
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In fact, even calling them a CMO has become something of a misnomer, because the role is changing dramatically.Mike Maynard, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
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The name Dry Tortugas National Park is a bit of a misnomer, considering that less than one percent of this Florida national park’s 100 square miles is dry land.Matt Kirouac, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Apr. 2023
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Think of the faster speed of sending over data, or higher bandwidth in chips parlance, as a highway.Wayne Chang, CNN, 8 Dec. 2024
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There isn’t a proper app store or any app icons to manage That will hopefully force developers to make apps (or, in Alexa's parlance, skills) that feel native to this device.Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 22 Nov. 2024
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Tretinoin was first approved by the FDA in 1971—under the brand name Retin-A—as a topical acne treatment.Jasmine Browley, Allure, 13 Dec. 2024
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Hotel group Accor acquired control of the brand name in 2017 after buying a 50% stake from French railway company SNCF.Julianna Bragg, CNN, 9 Dec. 2024
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So my focus is on regionalism and international tax developments.Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
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But European regionalism has always also included ethnic and cultural elements connected to Christianity and whiteness.Hans Kundnani, Foreign Affairs, 10 Sep. 2024
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“Vernacular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vernacular. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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