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As children, we played cowboys and Indians through the fields and forests, looking for foes as though being set upon was the worst we’d face. As children we found horseshoes, dusty hidden treasures buried in dirt, and we’d take them home and hang them on our walls alongside our Farrah and football posters. Innately we knew that someday we’d grow out of this, so mornings and afternoons we’d carry on, content, a real word in our small vocabulary. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 1 month ago
Poetry encourages readers to explore vocabulary, understand metaphors and symbolism, and appreciate the nuances of language. – Oscar Auliq-Ice	added by Auliq-Ice 8 months ago
Reading poetry encourages readers to explore vocabulary, understand metaphors and symbolism, and appreciate the nuances of language. – Oscar Auliq-Ice	added by Auliq-Ice 8 months ago
A subtle but effective way of encouraging an irregular voter is by slightly altering your vocabulary when you ask questions. For reasons that are unclear, people’s internal identity is only loosely connected to their actions—until they’re reminded of the discrepancy between the two. Use that to your advantage by emphasizing the identity of being a voter rather than the act of voting. – Oscar Auliq-Ice	added by Auliq-Ice 11 months ago
A subtle but effective way of encouraging an irregular voter is by slightly altering your vocabulary when you ask questions. For reasons that are unclear, people’s internal identity is only loosely connected to their actions—until they’re reminded of the discrepancy between the two. Use that to your advantage by emphasizing the identity of being a voter rather than the act of voting. – Oscar Auliq-Ice	added by Auliq-Ice 11 months ago
I want to take what Taylor Swift fans can already do at a sophisticated level, tease it out for them a bit with a different vocabulary, and then show them how, in fact, Taylor Swift draws on richer literary traditions in Read MoreStudents songwriting, both topically but also formally in terms of how Read MoreStudents uses references, metaphors, and clever manipulations of words, i'll be showing students that these operations and interpretive moves one makes when reading Read MoreStudents songs are appropriate to all forms of writing. – Elizabeth Scala -LRB- @swiftieprof -RRB-	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Stagflation is probably the worst word of vocabulary for financial markets because it's the worst of both worlds. Inflation stays high and the economy slows, i think we're getting a whiff of stagflation now. – Leo Grohowski	Found on CNN 2 years ago
In order for people, the students, to grow into a citizen that can stay engaged with people who have a variety of opinions, which I feel like is kind of what we see disintegrating sometimes in our country, they actually need to have the vocabulary and the exposure to a range of ideas so that they can actually have an intelligent and thoughtful and respectful conversation. – Sylvia Miller-Mutia	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I continue to be shocked by the false reporting from Baxter Holmes.While there is so much that is inaccurate and misleading in this story that I hardly know where to begin, let me be clear : The n-word is not part of my vocabulary. I have never called anyone or any group of people the n-word, or referred to anyone or any group of people by that word, either verbally or in writing.I do n’t use that word. – Robert Sarver	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
He said that Saturday was awesome, and I just never heard my pawpaw use that in his vocabulary. – Taylor Jarina	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
No one realized that I needed eyeglasses until I was 12 years old. My parents were writers, so I was around the sounds of words and developed a vocabulary with my sense of hearing. I play guitar by ear. – Roger McGuinn	added by RobertHaigh 2 years ago
The test measures divergent thinking and verbal creativity, which are important but limited aspects of overall creativity. Our task won't predict your creative culinary skills, but it will predict performance on various types of problem-solving, which suggests it is doing more than simply measuring vocabulary, still, we'll need future research to assess how our task relates to other verbal abilities or intelligence more broadly. – Jay Olson	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I can’t think of anything, at least since the Second World War, that would have changed the vocabulary as drastically, and at the same time as quickly, as the corona pandemic, i can think of many other examples of a huge cultural shift that changed the German vocabulary. But they didn’t happen within a few months. – Anatol Stefanowitsch	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
An elementary pupil was asked by the teacher about her view of writing. The little girl said, Good writing requires a good vocabulary. A good writer requires a good conduct in many ways. – CLIFFORD VILLALON	added by anonymous 3 years ago
Many kids in the United States don't have access to books, so( Vooks) works to combat that with a product that's really easy for them to get into, our videos bring vocabulary and stories to life. – Patty Duncan	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary. – Tom Waits	added by RobertHaigh 3 years ago
One of the primary functions of language is to express identity, and there is something communal about the new vocabulary we are all acquiring during this crisis. – Heather Bonikowski	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
My favorite thing about Max is Jennifer Lopez sense of humor and Jennifer Lopez incredible vocabulary. Also your big heart, my favorite thing about Jennifer Lopez is her joyful demeanor -- shes always happy -- and her artistic qualities, and I love to hear her sing. – Jennifer Lopez	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I know why hope went out of style for a while in our political vocabulary in a dark and divided moment. – Pete Buttigieg	Found on CNN 4 years ago
With' Allegiance,' George used the vocabulary of musical theater to tell the story of the whole spectrum of emotions of the internment, i felt like George would be familiar and receptive to that [ horror ] approach to telling the story, because it's a style of storytelling that, hopefully, allows you to access the emotions of the characters involved. – Alexander Woo	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The conceit of the show is using a genre vocabulary to tell a historical story. – Alexander Woo	Found on CNN 4 years ago
If Vincent Janik have a bigger vocabulary Vincent Janik can communicate about more content. – Amanda Stansbury	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I don't have the proper vocabulary ... It feels like an out-of-body experience ... a bit crazy, to be speaking for a community where there's so much pain, so much healing to be done, it is just really incredible, very emotional. – Kyle Soller	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Playing nice isn't really something that's in my vocabulary, i just do what I think is right. – Katie Hill	Found on CNN 5 years ago

As children, we played cowboys and Indians through the fields and forests, looking for foes as though being set upon was the worst we’d face. As children we found horseshoes, dusty hidden treasures buried in dirt, and we’d take them home and hang them on our walls alongside our Farrah and football posters. Innately we knew that someday we’d grow out of this, so mornings and afternoons we’d carry on, content, a real word in our small vocabulary.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
1 month ago

Poetry encourages readers to explore vocabulary, understand metaphors and symbolism, and appreciate the nuances of language.

– Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
8 months ago

Reading poetry encourages readers to explore vocabulary, understand metaphors and symbolism, and appreciate the nuances of language.

– Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
8 months ago

A subtle but effective way of encouraging an irregular voter is by slightly altering your vocabulary when you ask questions. For reasons that are unclear, people’s internal identity is only loosely connected to their actions—until they’re reminded of the discrepancy between the two. Use that to your advantage by emphasizing the identity of being a voter rather than the act of voting.

– Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
11 months ago

– Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
11 months ago

I want to take what Taylor Swift fans can already do at a sophisticated level, tease it out for them a bit with a different vocabulary, and then show them how, in fact, Taylor Swift draws on richer literary traditions in Read MoreStudents songwriting, both topically but also formally in terms of how Read MoreStudents uses references, metaphors, and clever manipulations of words, i'll be showing students that these operations and interpretive moves one makes when reading Read MoreStudents songs are appropriate to all forms of writing.

– Elizabeth Scala -LRB- @swiftieprof -RRB-

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Stagflation is probably the worst word of vocabulary for financial markets because it's the worst of both worlds. Inflation stays high and the economy slows, i think we're getting a whiff of stagflation now.

– Leo Grohowski

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In order for people, the students, to grow into a citizen that can stay engaged with people who have a variety of opinions, which I feel like is kind of what we see disintegrating sometimes in our country, they actually need to have the vocabulary and the exposure to a range of ideas so that they can actually have an intelligent and thoughtful and respectful conversation.

– Sylvia Miller-Mutia

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I continue to be shocked by the false reporting from Baxter Holmes.While there is so much that is inaccurate and misleading in this story that I hardly know where to begin, let me be clear : The n-word is not part of my vocabulary. I have never called anyone or any group of people the n-word, or referred to anyone or any group of people by that word, either verbally or in writing.I do n’t use that word.

– Robert Sarver

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He said that Saturday was awesome, and I just never heard my pawpaw use that in his vocabulary.

– Taylor Jarina

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

No one realized that I needed eyeglasses until I was 12 years old. My parents were writers, so I was around the sounds of words and developed a vocabulary with my sense of hearing. I play guitar by ear.

– Roger McGuinn

added by RobertHaigh
2 years ago

The test measures divergent thinking and verbal creativity, which are important but limited aspects of overall creativity. Our task won't predict your creative culinary skills, but it will predict performance on various types of problem-solving, which suggests it is doing more than simply measuring vocabulary, still, we'll need future research to assess how our task relates to other verbal abilities or intelligence more broadly.

– Jay Olson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I can’t think of anything, at least since the Second World War, that would have changed the vocabulary as drastically, and at the same time as quickly, as the corona pandemic, i can think of many other examples of a huge cultural shift that changed the German vocabulary. But they didn’t happen within a few months.

– Anatol Stefanowitsch

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

An elementary pupil was asked by the teacher about her view of writing. The little girl said, Good writing requires a good vocabulary. A good writer requires a good conduct in many ways.

– CLIFFORD VILLALON

added by anonymous
3 years ago

Many kids in the United States don't have access to books, so( Vooks) works to combat that with a product that's really easy for them to get into, our videos bring vocabulary and stories to life.

– Patty Duncan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.

– Tom Waits

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

One of the primary functions of language is to express identity, and there is something communal about the new vocabulary we are all acquiring during this crisis.

– Heather Bonikowski

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

My favorite thing about Max is Jennifer Lopez sense of humor and Jennifer Lopez incredible vocabulary. Also your big heart, my favorite thing about Jennifer Lopez is her joyful demeanor -- shes always happy -- and her artistic qualities, and I love to hear her sing.

– Jennifer Lopez

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I know why hope went out of style for a while in our political vocabulary in a dark and divided moment.

– Pete Buttigieg

Found on CNN
4 years ago

With' Allegiance,' George used the vocabulary of musical theater to tell the story of the whole spectrum of emotions of the internment, i felt like George would be familiar and receptive to that [ horror ] approach to telling the story, because it's a style of storytelling that, hopefully, allows you to access the emotions of the characters involved.

– Alexander Woo

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The conceit of the show is using a genre vocabulary to tell a historical story.

– Alexander Woo

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If Vincent Janik have a bigger vocabulary Vincent Janik can communicate about more content.

– Amanda Stansbury

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I don't have the proper vocabulary ... It feels like an out-of-body experience ... a bit crazy, to be speaking for a community where there's so much pain, so much healing to be done, it is just really incredible, very emotional.

– Kyle Soller

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Playing nice isn't really something that's in my vocabulary, i just do what I think is right.

– Katie Hill

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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