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  2. Colloquialism - Wikipedia

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    [10] [8] The term "colloquial" is also equated with "non-standard" at times, in certain contexts and terminological conventions. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] A colloquial name or familiar name is a name or term commonly used to identify a person or thing in non-specialist language, in place of another usually more formal or technical name.

  3. The New York Times crossword - Wikipedia

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    The larger Sunday crossword, which appears in The New York Times Magazine, is an icon in American culture; it is typically intended to be a "Wednesday or Thursday" in difficulty. [7] The standard daily crossword is 15 by 15 squares, while the Sunday crossword measures 21 by 21 squares.

  4. Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword ...

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    LEECH (23A: Bloodsucking worm) Last month I wrote about the use of the LEECH in certain medical situations. GENERAL GRIEVOUS (39A: "Star Wars" character who dueled Obi-Wan Kenobi) In the Star Wars ...

  5. Beaner - Wikipedia

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    In 2019, the use of the word beaner in the New York Times crossword, clued as "Pitch to the head, informally", [12] generated controversy. [13] New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz claimed he knew that the term had a pejorative meaning, but he had never personally heard it used as a slur before and argued that "any benign meaning of a ...

  6. List of children's games - Wikipedia

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    A child playing tag.. This is a list of games that are played by children.Traditional children's games do not include commercial products such as board games but do include games which require props such as hopscotch or marbles (toys go in List of toys unless the toys are used in multiple games or the single game played is named after the toy; thus "jump rope" is a game, while "Jacob's ladder ...

  7. Glossary of mathematical jargon - Wikipedia

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    Though long used informally, this term has found a formal definition in category theory. pathological An object behaves pathologically (or, somewhat more broadly used, in a degenerated way) if it either fails to conform to the generic behavior of such objects, fails to satisfy certain context-dependent regularity properties, or simply disobeys ...

  8. Godparent - Wikipedia

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    Alternatively, as it is already common in Chinese kinship to use kinship terms among people that are not related (e.g. addressing a respected coworker as "brother" or one's father's friend may be referred to as "uncle"), an older friend or family friend with a deep friendship and a sufficient age gap will also informally address the other as ...

  9. Call to the bar - Wikipedia

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    Historically, the institution of attorney was similar to that of the solicitor, whereas the office of the counselor was almost identical to that of the barrister, but today this distinction has disappeared. The phrase "called to the bar" is still sometimes used informally by U.S. attorneys to refer to their qualification as a lawyer.