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the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field
the promotional team for the new computer used a dialect full of acronyms that the press found difficult to follow
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Recent Examples of dialect
With Scottish writer George Blake’s novel, The Shipbuilders, language and dialect were tamed thanks to Sylvia’s views.
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Nicola Wilson
june 26, Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
Each population — in this case, southern resident orcas — has a distinct dialect for communication, specific foraging strategies and now a unique type of tool use.
—Marlowe Starling, CNN Money, 23 June 2025
Sun Anke, from Northeast China, found Tianjin dialect particularly difficult.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 June 2025
The father had passed away and his adult children uncovered his war journal, which was written in an obscure Italian dialect.
—Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2025
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Nicola Wilson
june 26, Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
Each population — in this case, southern resident orcas — has a distinct dialect for communication, specific foraging strategies and now a unique type of tool use.
—Marlowe Starling, CNN Money, 23 June 2025
Sun Anke, from Northeast China, found Tianjin dialect particularly difficult.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 June 2025
The father had passed away and his adult children uncovered his war journal, which was written in an obscure Italian dialect.
—Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dialect
Noun
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Over time, the confusing terminology—agentic AI, agent AI, generative AI—will fade.—
Shaz Khan,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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Five other experts that Popular Science corresponded with for this article all agree on this ‘crisis’ terminology.—
Lauren Leffer,
Popular Science,
29 May 2025
Noun
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It was trained on the entire Internet to pull out statistical patterns in the language usage.—
Alex Morris,
Rolling Stone,
14 July 2025
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Adding classes in Spanish for those who read, write and speak it as their first language is another part of the plan to make schooling at CLC both more affordable and less challenging.—
Steve Sadin,
Chicago Tribune,
14 July 2025
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During the Cold War, popular culture provided Americans with images of (and a vocabulary for) nuclear war.—
Tom Nichols,
The Atlantic,
10 July 2025
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But at the start of the project, which launched in 2023, their vocabularies differed dramatically.—
Adam Hurly,
Robb Report,
8 July 2025
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And June 2025 brought a fresh batch of slang that's either charming, confusing, or mildly alarming.—
Annabelle Canela,
Parents,
8 July 2025
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Words change meaning over time, slang infiltrates the mainstream, and sometimes, a little creative license is acceptable.—
Jerry Weissman,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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“Dialect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dialect. Accessed 20 Jul. 2025.
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