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lingos

noun

variants or lingoes

plural of lingo

as in languages

the stock of words, pronunciation, and grammar used by a people as their basic means of communication medical missionaries struggling to learn the lingo of the African tribe that they were treating

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the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field the shorthand medical lingo that the hospital staffers use with one another

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Recent Examples of lingos Mixing and juxtaposing voices, lingos, and tones, [Dylan] traces the decline of America over the trajectory of his own lifetime through the kaleidoscope of the Kennedy assassination. — Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026

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For localization, Voithru’s Totus offers AI dubbing across 29 languages, and XL8 brings both MediaCAT and EventCAT for video localization and real-time interpretation.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026
Flowkey works across laptops, phones, and tablets and is available in 11 languages.

— StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 23 Aug. 2026

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Yet a 2023 Stanford study said that Pangram was biased against non-native English speakers, who might have more limited vocabularies, and many AI researchers contend that such detectors are unreliable.

— Cameron Pugh, Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2026
Chinese law schools have accordingly placed greater weight on teaching Chinese students to argue using the vocabularies of foreign legal systems.

— Mark Jia, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2026

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There are plenty of idioms to describe Andrean outside hitter Aleece Ehler’s freshman season.

— Noah Poser, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2026
On the one hand, the translation serves as a source for the idioms of nineteenth-century English; on the other, as evidence of the ideas that the translator held about a Colombian woman writer.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 July 2026

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