Sentences with phrase «popular lexicon»
The phrase "popular lexicon" refers to the words, phrases, and expressions that are commonly used and understood by many people in a particular society or culture. Full definition
@phoog In popular lexicon, it's an «accident» if it wasn't intentional.
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The Mesozoic is most famed for the Dinosaurs, and popular lexicon considers it the Age of the Dinosaurs (or Reptiles).
Interestingly, the introduction of the word marijuana was unique to Hearst's empire and was not a term in the American popular lexicon until that time.
Though such whimsical names are often met with an eye roll, if the company or product is sound and timely, its name can become part of industry or popular lexicon.
Kennedy stood on the Congress floor in 1961 and challenged the U.S. to arrive there first, and thus the term «moonshot» entered the popular lexicon.
Since probiotics entered the popular lexicon a few short years ago, bacteria have become one of the most sought - after food ingredients.
That fall, the term «truthiness,» coined by Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report to mock the prevarications of government officials, was instantly incorporated into the popular lexicon, and a panel of distinguished linguists voted it the Word of the Year for 2005.
Tom Brakke looks at this conundrum and breaks the term Waffle into the popular lexicon (the Waffle is the payment a broker gets to switch to a new firm).
After all, recounting the beginning of time is about finding not just the right words, but the right physics — and ever since the big bang entered the popular lexicon, that physics has been murky.
Several years ago, a nonfiction book seeking to explain the eternal communication divide between the sexes, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, notched a spot on the best - seller list, and a place in the popular lexicon along with it.
This was well before terms like puppy mill or animal cruelty had become part of the popular lexicon or entered my conscience whatsoever, but I felt in that moment that the puppy was meant for me, a person who would keep him safe.
In the last decade, the terms «curator» and «curation» have become commonplace in academic and popular lexicons.
We wanted to get the word out and build momentum for the Road to Paris in a country where rising heat is becoming deadly and researchers find that pollution from coal power plants is chopping over three years off the average citizen's lifespan, but «climate change» is hardly in the popular lexicon.