This word seems to be instantly at home, at least in the speech of younger Australians.
ZG: 5
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Over the last decade we have seen the arrival of many devices designed to help our fauna cross main roads safely.
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The dark kitchen is not a kitchen that serves a restaurant in which diners come to eat. There are no customers, just delivery couriers taking meals to people who have ordered by app.
ZG: 6
An interesting new term but probably not one that the general public encounters.
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This is a new branch of science which combines biology and genetic engineering to create completely new artificial products.
ZG: 6
A brave new world indeed! But not yet a term that we all recognise.
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Scott Morrison is our first Pentacostal prime minister, espousing a brand of religion that suits the aspirations of Western capitalism.
ZG: 7
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This is a sad term that has come into our lexicon. It is the name given to a dissociative syndrome producing a state of catatonia in the sufferer, and usually the consequence of psychological trauma.
ZG: 10
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A chip implant is a particular kind of bio-implant which has in it a smart chip (of the kind you normally have in a device or a plastic card) that relies on near field communication to act.
ZG: 7
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Given that there is considerable enthusiasm for keeping people in their own homes as they grow older, the need for the elderly sitter will only increase.
ZG: 7
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In the open banking system financial information is networked and accessed through communications software to improve access to it for all parties.
ZG: 4
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This is, literally, a house in which things grow, but the things that grow in a grow house are the rather special plants called marijuana.
ZG: 6
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The term kangatarian first appeared in 2010 and seems to have had some currency ever since. You may well have thought that it would disappear as a joke word for a food fad but kangatarians may be here to stay.
ZG: 4
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Precariat is a somewhat more recent coinage than precarity but both of them are uncommon. Certainly my spellchecker rejects them both.
ZG: 2
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Blazar is derived from quasar. Could this be the beginning of a new set of words for types of quasars?
ZG: 2
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The butt-brush effect has been extended to cover any kind of jostling that creates negative feelings that inhibit purchasing.
ZG: 3
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Once upon a time a glass of water was the simplest, most natural thing to drink. Now it’s complicated.
ZG: 7
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