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Having co-founded Random House in 1927 Cerf was largely responsible for bringing modernism to the masses, putting the likes of Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and William Faulkner in front of millions of American readers.—
Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
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Leisure readers, offers a welcome taste of nostalgia in an era of hospitality when sleek modernism is the ethos du jour.—
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Her vetting crusades have brought about a new Washington colloquialism.—
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The show chugged along nonetheless, gradually attracting fans who adored its stark cinematography and weirdo colloquialisms.—
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In a year of cancellations and euphemisms, the city mounted a counterprogram that was quietly insurrectionary, stubbornly joyous.—
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Opinions were filtered through euphemism.—
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This book is a deeply scholarly, policy-relevant history of money, from the advent of coinage, paper currency, and bank money in ancient, medieval, and early modern times to the stablecoins and central bank digital currencies of today and tomorrow.—
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The retailer has posted signs requesting exact coinage.—
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These neologisms weren’t just clever.—
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Podcasts, newsletters, and Words of the Year have popularized neologisms, etymologies, and usage trends.—
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And comparing more recent historic forms of English and Sranan to get at centuries-old linguistic forms isn’t ironclad, Creanza pointed out.—
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For instance, people, a French loanword, may be spelled peple, pepill, poeple, or poepul.—
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The newest dictionary additions include loanwords from Southeast Asia, South Africa and Ireland.—
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De Caché is a Spanish language term meaning high end or classy, general manager Oscar Escobar said.—
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Trump hasn’t used the act – which has only been invoked a handful of times in recent decades to suppress rioting – in either of his terms, but Walz expressed concern Wednesday that Minneapolis could be the tipping point if people protesting the shooting become violent.—
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“Vernacularism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vernacularism. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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