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To counter this, she has an uncommonly strong script for the genre, balancing the sappy and sentimental with a slangy skater-queer-cool-kid voice inhabited comfortably by both Stella and Plaza.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2024
To that end, the soapy spoof “Sylvanian Drama” works beautifully in its one-minute chunks but becomes its own slangy mindset after an hour.
From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2023
And the turbulence of the Reformation gets a lot of arch nods, which are all the funnier in the slangy phrasing of queens who are essentially preening Billboard goddesses.
From Washington Post • Jul. 15, 2022
These guys speak in slangy lingo, such as “Strike straight,” that reveals their need for a melded identity in their rebellious attitude toward life.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
He was forever dropping slangy terms into his sentences like dumplings in a pot.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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