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pidgin

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as in idiom

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Recent Examples of pidgin Epstein’s pidgin writing style, paired with his name-dropping and vagueness, makes emails like this excellent fodder for both speculation and genuine concern. — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 14 Nov. 2025 Ambitious and ultra-local, with pummeling percussion and fierce taunts in Nigerian pidgin, the album Rema was nominated for — last year’s Heis — boldly honored his roots and commanded respect. — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2025 Eventually, my family became adept at speaking a pidgin of English, Korean, and Japanese. — Victoria Song, The Verge, 18 Apr. 2024 The dialogue in both sections, sprinkled like parsley with pidgin Yiddish and Hebrew prayer, has a secondhand aura that is also unconvincing. — Jesse Green, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023 See All Example Sentences for pidgin

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The idiom and the small connecting words are all in the right places, and at this length that is hard to fake.

— Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Holden Caulfield is made to tell his own story, in his own strange idiom.

— Book Marks, Literary Hub, 16 July 2026

Definition of idiom

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Google says training across languages, dialects, and different proficiency levels helped the model learn structures shared between sign languages.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026
Outpouring of grief The sound of sobbing underlays chanting in dozens of dialects woven together in a single expression of sorrow for Imam Hussein and his companions and family, killed and taken captive in the defining event of Shia Islam.

— Jane Arraf, NPR, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of dialect

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In OpenAI's current parlance, a plugin is a bundle of apps, instructions, role-specific skills, and recurring workflows rather than an external application or a folder of sample prompts.

— Ray Ravaglia, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
In Warsh’s parlance, the market was playing the referee, not the ball.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 30 July 2026

Definition of parlance

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Jamaica’s official language and civilizational ideal was the Queen’s English, but the island’s lingua franca was the marvelous variant of that tongue called patois.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2026
In truth, plenty of New Yorkers are both privileged and come from elsewhere, but still fall into the rhythm and the patois that has long defined the city.

— Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 3 July 2026

Definition of patois

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His party has expanded its outreach to Gen Z through online campaigns, with some party lawmakers adopting youth slang in public appearances, including speeches in Parliament.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026
Kerr, for example, questioned Valdez’s command of English given his use of Caló, a culturally specific dialect that blends Mexican Spanish slang with English.

— Carlos Aguilar, IndieWire, 16 July 2026

Definition of slang

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The concept of critical regionalism may seem like a poor fit for New York, that proud engine of globalism, crucible of efficiency, and maximizer of revenue.

— Justin Davidson, Curbed, 28 Jan. 2026
Just don’t let the deniers know that regionalism and sustainability are essentially one and the same.

— Richard Olsen, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026

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