“contemporary parlance” is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to refer to the current or modern way of speaking or using language. Example: In contemporary parlance, the term “self-care” has gained popularity amongst millennials, referring to practices aimed at promoting mental and emotional well-being.
Those moments are the kind of awkward incidents that would in contemporary parlance be described as "O.M.G. moments".
Progressive in its politics and uncompromising in its aesthetics, the league was the place to be if you had a hand-held 35-millimeter camera and a left-leaning social conscience — and particularly if you believed, to borrow a bit of contemporary parlance, that photography was fine art for the 99 percent.
Bel's coat – she calls it her Mackintosh, rather than the Burberry-approved trench of contemporary parlance – is, like the papers she carries and the way her hair gets a bit messy, a practical decision but also a signal which links her with her mostly male colleagues.
In contemporary parlance, perhaps consciousness has the structure of atomless gunk.
In contemporary parlance, typically, "logical independence" is used solely to speak of a relation between sentences, propositions, or perhaps facts or states of affairs.
They build themselves up by calling others heretics or, in the contemporary parlance, unpatriotic.
In contemporary political parlance, "principle" means a knee jerk, politically expedient rubric (e.g. taxes = bad; extra punishment for criminals = good).
Alchemy is the art of transforming our base metals, our life's ore, that which we have been given from our fates, our families, and our other life circumstances and events, into the gold of consciousness, "spirituality" in contemporary American parlance, or transcendence in the words of Thomas, the ballet director in Black Swan.
Even brands with lower – or in fashion parlance "contemporary" – prices take this approach to rounding out their offering: "Carven is about being accessible," explains Henri Sebaoun, its chief executive.
If reality is a game a vast, snow-globe-y sort of experiment that plays out according to the hard rules of physics and the loose rules of story then it is, in contemporary game-design parlance, a persistent one.
In the parlance of contemporary critical theory — often a barbaric dialect, but sometimes a useful one — Turner invented the "discourse" of sunsets.
