term of art
Americannoun
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A niche term of art in machine-learning research, it is proving a handy metaphor for talking about growth and threatening to cross over into wider business-speak.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
It might sound like a legal term of art, but it simply means you have a right to know why you are being held and a process that can grant you freedom.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Not to use a term of art here, but I have to hedge my answer.
From Barron's ● Mar. 28, 2026
The districts must also follow the federal Voting Rights Act and group together “communities of interest,” a wide-reaching term of art for people who share languages, cultures, backgrounds, interests, ways of life or other traits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025
And we can do it likewise without a sacrifice of truth, in the higher sense of truth, as a term of art or of poetry.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various
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