How to Use jargon in a Sentence
jargon
noun
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So read all the way to the bottom and don't get confused by the jargon.
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Dennis Wagner,
azcentral,
24 June 2019
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The deal is written in legalese and trade jargon that will be pored over by trade experts and lawyers.
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William Mauldin,
WSJ,
15 Jan. 2020
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In retail jargon, as prices go up, sales go down, and jobs get lost.
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Rick Helfenbein,
Forbes,
31 May 2021
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The best way to dive in is with the glossary, which explains the jargon and acronyms that feature in the interviews.
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Annabelle Timsit,
Quartz,
17 May 2021
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Not to go all science jargon here, but way, way, waaaaaaaaay safer.
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Courtney Shea,
refinery29.com,
14 May 2021
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For my money, the best part of professional wrestling is the jargon.
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Joshua David Stein,
Town & Country,
6 Nov. 2019
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And my heart was not yet indifferent to the shabby jargon of hope.
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Lynn Freed,
Harper's magazine,
10 Mar. 2019
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The letter was filled with technical jargon and acronyms.
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Gregory B. Hladky,
courant.com,
13 Sep. 2019
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Here's a handy explainer of the tax jargon you'll be exposed to as the proposal evolves.
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Luke Kawa,
Bloomberg.com,
27 Sep. 2017
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But what does any of that bridge jargon mean to anyone who isn't a civil engineer?
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Erik Sofge,
Popular Mechanics,
28 May 2013
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What the company has said has been couched in deeply technical jargon.
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Dominic Fracassa,
San Francisco Chronicle,
8 June 2021
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That verisimilitude extended to the jargon of spying in his novels, which had the ring of truth.
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Ben Zimmer,
WSJ,
17 Dec. 2020
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That's legal jargon to mean that Naruto doesn't own the photos.
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David Kravets,
Ars Technica,
15 July 2017
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In those instances, there’s a lot of poetry jargon like meter and rhyme.
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Jireh Deng,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Sep. 2021
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From the cloudy heights, academic jargon trickles down to street level.
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Robert Garnett,
WSJ,
14 July 2017
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Like all sports, thoroughbred racing has its fair share of jargon.
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Jason Frakes,
The Courier-Journal,
3 Apr. 2018
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But the details are buried in jargon-heavy government reports.
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Michael Hawthorne,
chicagotribune.com,
23 June 2017
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That’s a lot of football jargon to say Flacco saw exactly what the fans did.
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Terry Pluto,
cleveland,
19 Sep. 2022
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Behind the jargon and the policy are families and children who need help.
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Annabelle Timsit,
Quartz,
30 June 2020
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This might sound like so much jargon important only to bond market geeks.
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Matt Phillips,
The Seattle Times,
4 Dec. 2018
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Search for keywords Who has the time to wade through page after page of dense legal jargon to spot the worrisome bits?
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Jessica Guynn,
USA TODAY,
28 Jan. 2020
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Nevermind the price per foot jargon that everybody throws around.
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Dave Lieber,
Dallas News,
13 May 2020
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It’s this focus that creates the magic of agile, not its meetings or tools or jargon.
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Andrea Fryrear,
Forbes,
27 Dec. 2021
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If all of this sounded like jargon, then congrats on reading all the way to the end, despite your confusion.
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Rachel Epstein,
Marie Claire,
21 Apr. 2018
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Swap jargon for plain language to increase the odds your message is received and understood.
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Amy Blaschka,
Forbes,
28 Jan. 2023
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For each item, Guenther spits out high-speed football jargon.
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Andy Benoit,
SI.com,
1 Nov. 2017
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That’s a matter of marketing and legal jargon more than anything.
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Time,
19 Sep. 2017
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The jargon — stablecoin, peer-to-peer, private key — flowed.
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New York Times,
5 June 2021
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Climbing is a complicated sport, full of nuances and its own jargon.
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Andrew Bisharat,
Outside Online,
10 Nov. 2020
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The writing is clear and jargon-free, even riveting in its deadpan just-the-facts narrative.
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Linda Greenhouse,
The New York Review of Books,
30 May 2019
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