Example sentences for: neologisms

How can you use “neologisms” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A dictionary of neologisms owes nearly everything to the citation files behind it, and citation files are very much a product of accident, constrained by budget.

  • The punner like Arnold prolifically spawns neologisms, inkhorn terms, even nonce-words.

  • According to the Branfords' own calculations (made in 1988) the source languages for items in the DOSAE were 48 per cent Dutch/Afrikaans; 29 per cent English (i.e., neologisms); 11 per cent Bantu languages, and 12 per cent other.

  • \/; curiously, that is shown as a variant pronunciation under Asian, Asiarch, and Asiatic, and it is hard to see why it was omitted from Athanasian ; perhaps the NSOED editors have the inside skinny (a sense that is in, along with solid coverage of other neologisms, slang and standard).

  • They aren't quite neologisms to account for new technology, like cryogenics or LED . Rather, they come from new technology looking back on old technology--and I've decided to call them backwords.


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