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dialect

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ˈdī-ə-ˌlekt

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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 Its traditional dialect, Brusselian, was the only language that was neither just Germanic nor just Romance, but both Germanic and Romance. — Benjamin Moser, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2026 Owner and chef Stefania Marchesini, who fished professionally herself for 11 years, pays a premium to local fishermen, especially for soft-shell crabs known in the local dialect as moeche. — ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026 What used to be two entirely separate compliance projects is starting to look like two dialects of the same emerging language. — Abdelahhad Barbour, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026 Coming from a village in a southern province, illiterate, and speaking only local dialect, women like her come to Beijing to live with their sons and daughters. — Jonathan Flint, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for dialect

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Titles, descriptions and other metadata for older videos and podcasts may also be revised to reflect the new terminology, while the original recordings, transcripts and captions will remain unchanged.

— Josh Dinner, Space.com, 16 Oct. 2026
That terminology provides a way to identify how a medication is designed without turning the description into a judgment about treatment quality.

— Emma Clapp, Sacbee.com, 15 Oct. 2026

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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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