as in dialects
the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field
used the argot of figure skaters
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From that point, she was infatuated with Appalachian and southern dialects.—
Annie Joy Williams, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2026
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The school district, where at least 20 languages and dialects are spoken, has higher high school graduation and college attendance rates than the state and national average, and one of Nebraska’s biggest marching bands.—
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Children who are read to from under a year old often have larger and more complex vocabularies than their peers by the age of three.—
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The 306-page book use solos by Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Louis Armstrong, Sarah Vaughan, Miles Davis and other jazz immortals to provide melodic and rhythmic vocabularies for improvisation.—
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The hotline is available 24/7 in more than 170 languages.—
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Google plans to expand to other languages and countries in the coming months.—
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Like fellow North Carolinians Wednesday and MJ Lenderman—local stars descended from the likes of Lucinda Williams and Drive-By Truckers—Dowdy carves complex new visions into the idioms of his upbringing.—
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For decades, the Grisons had printed textbooks in five Romansh idioms—a baroque solution that invited a more rational one.—
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“Argots.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/argots. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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