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acrolect

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as in mother tongue

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D’Arcy continued their Emmys moment by announcing that Clarke will introduce the winner of the category in High Valyrian, the mother tongue of House Targaryen.

— Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Sep. 2026
Acting was entirely new territory, but there was a comfort level in the role being Thai and her character speaking both English and her mother tongue.

— José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 23 June 2026

Definition of mother tongue

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The first Velvet Underground album, the mid-period Beatles, Kinks, and Creedence Clearwater Revival records, with enough time, seem almost like different components to the same idiom.

— Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026
Cinema is, after all, a language, and Belgian filmmakers come from a country built on the need to understand language as a bridge—between its regions, its people, and its idioms.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 11 Sep. 2026

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The conflicts are raw and unresolved, and Churchill forces theatergoers to make up their own minds about the characters’ furious dialect.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
Documenting many varieties is a way to not just share the language, but to illustrate how dialects of Pennsylvania Dutch differ and maybe even fill in each other’s gaps.

— Eythana Miller, The Dial, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of dialect

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For now, this is an intriguing proof of concept, a tantalizing glimpse of what electric mobility might look like someday, and a technology wrapped in enough engineering jargon to make the average driver’s eyes glaze over.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 18 Oct. 2026
Market breadth, the jargon for how many stocks across the index are contributing to gains, has fallen to its lowest level since the dotcom bubble, according to a recent Goldman Sachs analysis.

— Eric Rosenbaum, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of jargon

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McCaffrey and the 49ers will return to the United States after their win and lesson in Australian slang to play the Miami Dolphins in Week 2.

— Ryan Canfield OutKick, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2026
The script itself is filled with the language of its time and place, including Berliner gutter slang and high-society clichés, casino speech and capitalist jargon, spoken Yiddish and literary German.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026

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