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"I want to help develop a visual and cultural vocabulary around surveillance.

Children begin to establish lexical semantic representations during their first year of life, resulting in a rapid growth of vocabulary around 18 24 months of age.

But by the end of the festival all those involved are probably in agreement that "visa" is the most pernicious bit of vocabulary around.

So the language of the West evolved a distinctive vocabulary around an element that is essential, often missing, and feared when too much of it comes too fast.

When the gardening world mustered up an effusive new vocabulary around these powerful plants, I learned how to pronounce Calamagrostis acutiflora (ka-la-ma-GRAHS-tiss acute-a-FLOOR-a) all in one breath, but I never really got excited about plants the size -- and with something of the exotic character -- of juvenile elephants.

When it comes to new words, we expect dictionaries to be the arbiters of legitimacy, but lexicographers can't possibly keep up with the efflorescence of new English vocabulary around the world.

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Fugard heard this alienation in the streets of Port Elizabeth, where the sea wind blew people and their racial vocabularies around like so many sad ideas.

After a journey that took him to the outermost shores of contemporary movement, where he has reimagined the classical vocabulary, turning it around, taking it apart and examining it from every angle, he is back working with pointe shoes and traditional forms.

By now, students have their own vocabulary built around Juul — "juuling" has become a verb.

Plus, vowels provide 100% of a chimpanzee's entire vocabulary, and around 90% of a modern "lad's".

In some ways, the timing seems strange; the guilty pleasure was becoming a part of the cultural vocabulary right around the time cultural distinctions were ceasing to matter.

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