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specialized terminology characteristic of a particular group such as doctors or thieves

And what, to use the jargon of criminology, had put the weapon in young Sand's hand?
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain

This is neurotic, I know—excuse the jargon—but to be not neurotic is to adjust to what they call the reality situation.
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
(v) Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
George Orwell -- Politics and the English Language
Death of my soul, I have had enough of your other jargon.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
How is it possible to extort a meaning from all this jargon about 'devil's seats,'
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Gold-Bug
I despise this modern jargon.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise
The air was soon thick with jargon and code.
Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
The whole business seemed to many of them merely a new and pretentious jargon of weasel concepts.
Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
"Hm," said the A.C... "That's the jargon that's talked nowadays.
Agatha Christie -- The ABC Murders
Each cage was labeled in some indecipherable scientific jargon.
Richard Wright -- Black Boy
It was a strange jargon—the Lord's Prayer repeated backwards—the incantation usual in proceedings for obtaining unhallowed assistance against an enemy.
Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native
Nevian is more useful than the jargon they talk on Center.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Glory Road
The Army's animal-care technicians are classified 91-T, which in Army jargon becomes 91-Tango.
Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone
I'm not up on Air Force codes and jargon.
Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
I'm no fan of the latest French theory or of jargon of any stripe, but sometimes we really can't do without it.
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
With much jargon they sauntered this way and that, all the time gradually approaching the pillar by which Ben-Hur was standing.
Lew Wallace -- Ben Hur
MADAME PACE is supposed to talk in a jargon half Italian, half English.
Luigi Pirandello -- Six Characters in Search of an Author
" "Thou dost well, De Bracy," said Front-de-Boeuf, "to stand there listening to a fool's jargon, when destruction is gaping for us!
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
There's not a lot of jargon.
Judith Guest -- Ordinary People
"What doubt can you have of the Creator when you behold His creation?" the priest went on in the rapid customary jargon.
Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina

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