Sentence examples for whose parlance from inspiring English sources

The phrase continues to be reflexively used in the rap world, and it has now been adopted ironically by upper-middle-class white people, in whose parlance "It's all good" is usually a way of preëmptively closing a conversation — a discussion of the final episode of "The Sopranos," for example — and segueing to the next topic: where to find the best sushi in the East Village.

The August article presented a summary paragraph — the "nut graf," in newsroom parlance — whose final sentence amounted to The Times's certifying the district attorney's case as worthy of a trial.

While the recovery and reuse of materials was generally for personal use, there were many 'professional' waste pickers – popularly called 'Kaya bola' in the local parlance, whose activities were seriously threatened by disease organisms, sharp objects and other hazards in the waste.

They were working as "ghosts," police parlance for undercover officers whose job is to provide backup for another officer who is doing what they call "buy and bust" work.

An unlikely American whose name has become part of American parlance is rapper Sister Souljah.

Here, we consider the clinical data, the dependent variable, as the primary data channel (in the parlance of adaptive filter theory) whose values are to be predicted.

A series of television commercials introduced last year feature, in the parlance of the ads, a manbulance whose crew responds to manmergencies, or situations deemed gravely unmanly.

Another problem is that talk of breaking teachers' unions has become common parlance among the kind of people whose kids do not live below the poverty line, polite Pinkerton agents of education reform, circling at cocktail parties.

Indigo Rose, whose intermediate size makes it a "saladette," in tomato parlance, has a nice balance of sweetness and acidity, and good tomato flavor, although it doesn't compare in richness and complexity with the finest heirlooms such as Black Krim.

The idea of attacking the United States, "the far enemy" in jihadist parlance, was always unpopular for many Islamic radicals, whose chief goal was replacing their own governments with theocracies.

The "prediction" problem, the subject of the present paper, refers to an attempt to estimate future values of the clinical data using today's and past days' values of the OTC channels, i.e. the predicted quantity is now, k > 0. In the parlance of linear filter theory, the data set whose prediction is desired (the dependent variable) is termed the primary data channel.