Shibboleth used in a sentence

Shibboleth in a sentence as a noun

A shibboleth that the author will use a $5 word where a nickel would do

And edit 2: which I then realized is a shibboleth inside a shibboleth.

The above paragraphs is a shibboleth for well-off far lefties.

I would have thought basic regex skills were a baseline shibboleth of a programmer.

High status men and low status womenDo I detect a roissysphere shibboleth?

It seems to be a long-standing shibboleth of scientific computing/Fortran culture.

Not knowing it is something of a shibboleth that suggests one isn't familiar with the basics of the profession.

You're using the word "culture" as a shibboleth for a whole package of entitlements that people on message boards tend to believe in, and not in its conventional sense.

To call functional programming a 'shibboleth of good engineers' seems to exclude too many people I would call good engineers to be a good or even useful measure.

Once a paper gets big enough you basically have to cite it any time you touch on vaguely related just to prove that you are aware of it, almost as a shibboleth.

A text-based programming language is a great tool for power users, but its totally unapproachable for a new user because they dont know the shibboleth.

Bottom-posting, due to its falling out of favor in the mainstream, has become a shibboleth that signifies a certain degree of competence with technology and Internet communication in general.

> Bottom-posting, due to its falling out of favor in the mainstream, has become a shibboleth that signifies a certain degree of competence with technology and Internet communication in general.

The last time I paid attention to the Java vs Lisp vs C++ discussion, the shibboleth about JVM memory usage was that the JVM pre-allocated lots of memory to optimize for the case where the application was going to be big and long lived, at the cost of longer start up times and bad memory usage benchmarks for toy programs.