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She is intimate with its maps and vernaculars, and the way summer settles hard on the north-central plains along the Brazos River south of Horseshoe Bend near Granbury.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2024

While womenswear owes a debt to hip-hop, street style and athleticism, contemporary menswear is far more deeply indebted to those vernaculars.

From Washington Post • Feb. 15, 2023

Writers “should be doing the work to actually go out and learn about different cultures, different people and find the vernaculars that they speak in,” Dyer said.

From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2022

Certainly the enormity of the loss from this virus has made a full reckoning difficult, at least within established memorial vernaculars.

From Salon • Oct. 10, 2022

But they have become thoroughly assimilated in their southern home, and each of them has produced a huge mass of fine devotional literature in the vernaculars.

From Hindu Gods And Heroes Studies in the History of the Religion of India by Barnett, Lionel D.