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neologisms

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plural of neologism

as in modernisms

a new word or expression or a new meaning of a word scientific neologisms

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Recent Examples of neologisms Onstage interpreters at the WOTY vote are quick to translate neologisms in real time, but there’s no one-to-one equivalent between a word and a sign. — New York Times, 22 Oct. 2026 These neologisms weren’t just clever. — Literary Hub, 24 Nov. 2025 Podcasts, newsletters, and Words of the Year have popularized neologisms, etymologies, and usage trends. — Stefan Fatsis, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2025

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The plot, though streamlined, is accented with some verbal modernisms in keeping with that reclining easy chair, as if slipped in to keep things askew.

— Greg Evans, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2026
Art history as a discipline favors upstarts, the avant-garde, protest, outsiders, and transgression—all those timeless modernisms.

— Anna Kornbluh, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2026

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The author, a professor named Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, proved to have a knack not just for provocative legal essays but for coinages, too.

— Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
There were a few coinages in the script, but 90 percent of the language is real.

— Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2025

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