How to Use terminology in a Sentence

terminology

noun
  • If being one were that easy, the terminology would have to change.
    John Hall, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
  • Some of the changes clarified out-of-date terminology that was still on the books since the last time the rules were updated in 1985.
    Bo Erickson, CBS News, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Though terminologies may vary, the concept remains the same.
    Praveen Andapalli, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Every type of dialogue terminology, the clothes, the style, the type of people.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 4 Dec. 2023
  • What Daemon does to young Rhaenyra is, in modern terminology, an act of abuse.
    Adam B. Vary, Variety, 25 Sep. 2022
  • In recent weeks, the first batches of studies with the new terminology have been published.
    Isabella Cueto, STAT, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Students are confused by the new terminology and many have been unable to submit the forms.
    Hannah Poukish, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Montgomery’s job, too, will be even down to the basics of terminology on offense.
    Matt Cohen | McOhen@al.com, al, 18 July 2023
  • But there is some confusion about the available options and some of the terminology.
    Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 24 June 2022
  • Such terminology would have seemed absurd less than a decade ago.
    Time, 12 July 2023
  • Normal people trying to keep up with the news had to hack through a jungle of new terminology: x-risk, e/acc, alignment, p(doom).
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 29 Dec. 2023
  • The term monkeypox will remain in the ICD, to lower the risk of a disconnect between studies that used the old terminology and those that use mpox.
    Helen Branswell, STAT, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The guides share info about the artist, teach basic sculpture terminology, encourage kids to think and prompt them to create their own art.
    Emerson Greenlee, Dallas News, 21 May 2023
  • Grimes said all the offensive terminology is the same as last season, and the system remains as fast and free-flowing as ever.
    Greg Luca, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Sep. 2022
  • This can be a very nice thing, depending on your taste, your mood and your tolerance for twee terminology.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2023
  • McCarthy has been impressed with how quickly Turpin has picked up the team’s terminology.
    Dallas News, 21 Aug. 2022
  • The Town of Normal in central Illinois, gets its name from a 'normal school', the historic terminology used for a teacher's college, founded there in the 1850s.
    Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Chicagoans are no strangers to cold weather, but some of the terminology used to describe frigid conditions can be confusing.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 21 Dec. 2022
  • While the rare event has had moon fans giddy with delight, casual stargazers may still be scratching their heads at all the terminology.
    oregonlive, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Officials said the language in the year-end report was based on terminology used by th European Union.
    Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News, 31 Dec. 2022
  • The terminology varies based on the type of project, the professionals involved, or even the local vernacular.
    Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Aug. 2022
  • So why has eBAM not been able to establish itself so far, despite the terminology being around for years and the clear value added for corporates and banks?
    Peter Klein, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • With the world shut down in 2020, Monken didn’t have the luxury of spring or summer practices nor a typical fall camp to get players used to new terminology and new concepts in the offense.
    Laine Higgins, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Maybe someday there will be a different terminology for it in the medical world, in the psychiatric world.
    Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2023
  • This terminology arose from research done on captive wolf packs in the mid-20th century—but captive packs are nothing like wild ones, Mech says.
    Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 28 Feb. 2023
  • To describe a scene of nature well, the writer is hard pressed to avoid terminology that’s foreign to readers who haven’t already witnessed a similar sort of scene.
    Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2023
  • On the other side of the debate, some argue that rather than altering the terminology, mummies should not be displayed in museums at all.
    Devika Rao, The Week, 16 Feb. 2023
  • As a workaround, Hassan and others have adopted new terminology for their NGOs’ work.
    Byleslie Roberts, science.org, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Expectations may change, standards may evolve, laws may multiply, and the terminology may shift–but the simple fact is that done right, ESG is good business.
    Jeff Levinson, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The agreement still has to be turned into legislation, and failure to agree on the terminology and the exact reach of some of the provisions could prove difficult and still imperil the deal.
    New York Times, 12 June 2022

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