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Recent Examples of pidgin
Epstein’s pidgin writing style, paired with his name-dropping and vagueness, makes emails like this excellent fodder for both speculation and genuine concern.
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Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
14 Nov. 2025
Ambitious and ultra-local, with pummeling percussion and fierce taunts in Nigerian pidgin, the album Rema was nominated for — last year’s Heis — boldly honored his roots and commanded respect.
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Mankaprr Conteh,
Rolling Stone,
14 Mar. 2025
Eventually, my family became adept at speaking a pidgin of English, Korean, and Japanese.
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Victoria Song,
The Verge,
18 Apr. 2024
The dialogue in both sections, sprinkled like parsley with pidgin Yiddish and Hebrew prayer, has a secondhand aura that is also unconvincing.
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Jesse Green,
New York Times,
16 Feb. 2023
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Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
14 Nov. 2025
Ambitious and ultra-local, with pummeling percussion and fierce taunts in Nigerian pidgin, the album Rema was nominated for — last year’s Heis — boldly honored his roots and commanded respect.
—
Mankaprr Conteh,
Rolling Stone,
14 Mar. 2025
Eventually, my family became adept at speaking a pidgin of English, Korean, and Japanese.
—
Victoria Song,
The Verge,
18 Apr. 2024
The dialogue in both sections, sprinkled like parsley with pidgin Yiddish and Hebrew prayer, has a secondhand aura that is also unconvincing.
—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
16 Feb. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pidgin
Noun
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On the one hand, the translation serves as a source for the idioms of nineteenth-century English; on the other, as evidence of the ideas that the translator held about a Colombian woman writer.
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Out of love for different sound systems, different writing systems, different grammars, different sets of concepts, different idioms, different ways of seeing the world.
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Unlike the brighter, more melodic style often associated with Austria and the Tyrol region, Swiss yodeling is slower and more melancholic — an emotionally nuanced tradition rooted in distinct regional dialects.
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Unlike the brighter, more melodic style often associated with Austria and the Tyrol region, Swiss yodeling is slower and more melancholic — an emotionally nuanced tradition rooted in distinct regional dialects.
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Her vetting crusades have brought about a new Washington colloquialism.
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The show chugged along nonetheless, gradually attracting fans who adored its stark cinematography and weirdo colloquialisms.
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Among other things, the 1960s meetings known as Vatican II revolutionized the church’s relations with other Christians, Jews and people of other faiths and allowed Mass to be celebrated in the vernacular rather than Latin.
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Among other things, the 1960s church meetings revolutionized the Catholic Church’s relations with other Christians, Jews and people of other faiths, and allowed Mass to be celebrated in the vernacular rather than Latin.
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The look that stuck with us from his spring 2026 menswear collection, his final for the house, was this brown field jacket—officially, in brand parlance, a hemp blouson.
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James thrived as a slot cornerback or a nickelback (depending on the parlance), acting as an additional run defender or pass rusher, depending on the situation.
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In truth, plenty of New Yorkers are both privileged and come from elsewhere, but still fall into the rhythm and the patois that has long defined the city.
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That’s for sure when people speak patois, a vernacular version of English that’s based on a culture’s intonation.
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Their influence stretched beyond music into fashion, dance trends and slang, and as member Pimpin' noted, fans are still doing the group's signature dance more than two decades later, something a SeaWorld whale recently proved.
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Benoit delights in language as much as her heroine, weaving Regency-era slang throughout and appending a chapter-by-chapter glossary of vulgarities.
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The concept of critical regionalism may seem like a poor fit for New York, that proud engine of globalism, crucible of efficiency, and maximizer of revenue.
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Just don’t let the deniers know that regionalism and sustainability are essentially one and the same.
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“Pidgin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pidgin. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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