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She speaks from the business, rather than the political, lexicon.
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The idiom above treated runs through A.-S., Old Saxon, and other Teutonic languages, and should be noticed in the lexicons.† (source)
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But the revolutions round the table became more and more irregular in their sweep, till at last reaching Mr. Stelling's reading stand, they sent it thundering down with its heavy lexicons to the floor.† (source)
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All human actions will then, of course, be tabulated according to these laws, mathematically, like tables of logarithms up to 108,000, and entered in an index; or, better still, there would be published certain edifying works of the nature of encyclopaedic lexicons, in which everything will be so clearly calculated and explained that there will be no more incidents or adventures in the world.† (source)
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The Meanys, in my grandmother's lexicon, were not Mayflower stock.† (source)
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Save that one for the Annie Wilkes lexicon in your memoirs, if you ever get a chance to write your memoirs, that is.† (source)
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No courses; looks up many things in Knaur's Encyclopedia and Lexicon; likes to read detective stories, medical books and love stories, exciting or trivial.† (source)
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They are brutal, hardened; mercy is not in their lexicon.† (source)
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In Jason Bourne's lexicon these were weapons, especially the money.† (source)
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This was the outfit that introduced "gung ho!" into the American fighting lexicon.† (source)
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There were words prohibited by military decree, such as the word "companero," and others that could not be mentioned even though no edict had swept them from the lexicon, such as "freedom,"† (source)
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Because someone might think you're racistCaucasian is the oppressor group," says Kim Sherman, quickly picking up the multicultural lexicon.† (source)
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It may be that the term stuck, entered the language and the lexicon at that time.† (source)
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The Americans and their allies—the armies of Rome, in the lexicon of ISIS— had to be poked and prodded and stirred into a rage.† (source)
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She speaks the hard-edged lexicon of bygone tourists itchy to throw dice on green felt or asphalt.† (source)
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I have counted scores of terms like that one in his lexicon, which was also the lexicon of pih.† (source)
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