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I thought about him in that way, to borrow a phrase from the middle school vernacular.† (source)
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My mother was, in American adolescent vernacular, out of it.† (source)
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I suppose this was nothing but a more vernacular version of my grandmother's observation of the effect of TV on old people: that watching it would hasten their deaths.† (source)
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I'd say she is, in the popular vernacular, out of your league.† (source)
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But, in the vernacular, she had accepted several rides from Steven Kemp, who was almost a stranger.† (source)
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It was while she was at the college of architecture that she met Larry McCaslin, who was in Delhi collecting material for his doctoral thesis on "Energy Efficiency in Vernacular Architecture."† (source)
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They were playing a soft cover-two defense and letting our receivers get a clean release off the line of scrimmage without bumping them too much, so we were able to take advantage of our "vertical" passing attack by completing deep passes downfield, or in the football vernacular "over the top" of the defense.† (source)
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A new wave of translations, such as George Chapman's Iliad (1588-1611), brought Homer's poems into the vernaculars.† (source)
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I presently perceived she was (what is vernacularly termed) TRAILING Mrs. Dent; that is, playing on her ignorance — her TRAIL might be clever, but it was decidedly not good-natured.† (source)
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To him, Hunt was the janissary of a dead vernacular.† (source)
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Which is known, in military vernacular, as a balls-to-the-wall situation.† (source)
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"Hidy, Miss Eggers," he said, tipping an imaginary hat and sliding into the southern West Virginia vernacular.† (source)
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She didn't know a thing so rucked in the vernacular could have such an epic quality.† (source)
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This sudden switch to the vernacular of feelings made Hema's lips tremble.† (source)
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She could afford to slip into the vernacular became she had such eloquent command of English.† (source)
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Kahaar relapsed into hedgerow vernacular.† (source)
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