Sentence examples for in current parlance from inspiring English sources

In current parlance, they are not orphans now, but children living in single-parent homes.

In current parlance, a "geek" is practically any young male wearing tape on his eyeglasses and a pocket protector.

In current parlance, masculinity is constructed, performed and malleable, and one culture's defect (homosexuality, for example) may be another's virtue.

In current parlance the pirates were terrorists, since they sought to instill terror in innocent victims to further their own ends.

It feeds an insatiable curiosity about how the other half — or, in current parlance, the 1 percent — lives, and what it shows us is gorgeous, grotesque and disconcertingly human.

Another thing is apparent: South European nations, the "peripheral" ones in current parlance, have a hardship-softener too little factored into assessments of E.U. crisis — the sun — even if Germany has the money.

In a Huffington Post article written in 2011, David Sirota says, "It seems to me that traditional 'liberals' in our current parlance are those who focus on using taxpayer money to help better society.

In the current parlance of astronomers, however, Vesta and Ceres, like Pluto, are dwarf planets, not planets.

At the risk of sounding like a broken record (disk in the current parlance), I have to put Beaujolais high on the summer list.

For its opening weekend, Zankel is offering eight performances, programmed -- or curated, in the current parlance -- by John Adams, who takes over the Carnegie Hall Composer's Chair this season.

My MobiPak™ whirred.… Internationally famous architects — "starchitects," in the current parlance — tend to be the sort of people who fly constantly around the world, perhaps alighting in Rome to toss… Colonel Roosevelt, by Edmund Morris (Random House; $35).