diff --git a/pandas/io/formats/style.py b/pandas/io/formats/style.py
index 30cd707926e05..4d685bd8e8858 100644
--- a/pandas/io/formats/style.py
+++ b/pandas/io/formats/style.py
@@ -91,24 +91,24 @@ def _mpl(func: Callable) -> Generator[tuple[Any, Any], None, None]:
 ####
 # Shared Doc Strings
 
-subset = """subset : label, array-like, IndexSlice, optional
+subset_args = """subset : label, array-like, IndexSlice, optional
             A valid 2d input to `DataFrame.loc[<subset>]`, or, in the case of a 1d input
             or single key, to `DataFrame.loc[:, <subset>]` where the columns are
             prioritised, to limit ``data`` to *before* applying the function."""
 
-props = """props : str, default None
+properties_args = """props : str, default None
            CSS properties to use for highlighting. If ``props`` is given, ``color``
            is not used."""
 
-color = """color : str, default '{default}'
+coloring_args = """color : str, default '{default}'
            Background color to use for highlighting."""
 
-buf = """buf : str, path object, file-like object, optional
+buffering_args = """buf : str, path object, file-like object, optional
          String, path object (implementing ``os.PathLike[str]``), or file-like
          object implementing a string ``write()`` function. If ``None``, the result is
          returned as a string."""
 
-encoding = """encoding : str, optional
+encoding_args = """encoding : str, optional
               Character encoding setting for file output (and meta tags if available).
               Defaults to ``pandas.options.styler.render.encoding`` value of "utf-8"."""
 
@@ -1186,7 +1186,7 @@ def to_html(
     ) -> str:
         ...
 
-    @Substitution(buf=buf, encoding=encoding)
+    @Substitution(buf=buffering_args, encoding=encoding_args)
     def to_html(
         self,
         buf: FilePath | WriteBuffer[str] | None = None,
@@ -1345,7 +1345,7 @@ def to_string(
     ) -> str:
         ...
 
-    @Substitution(buf=buf, encoding=encoding)
+    @Substitution(buf=buffering_args, encoding=encoding_args)
     def to_string(
         self,
         buf: FilePath | WriteBuffer[str] | None = None,
@@ -1690,7 +1690,7 @@ def _apply(
         self._update_ctx(result)
         return self
 
-    @Substitution(subset=subset)
+    @Substitution(subset=subset_args)
     def apply(
         self,
         func: Callable,
@@ -1929,7 +1929,7 @@ def _applymap(
         self._update_ctx(result)
         return self
 
-    @Substitution(subset=subset)
+    @Substitution(subset=subset_args)
     def applymap(
         self, func: Callable, subset: Subset | None = None, **kwargs
     ) -> Styler:
@@ -2685,7 +2685,7 @@ def _get_numeric_subset_default(self):
             visibility across varying background colors. All text is dark if 0, and\n
             light if 1, defaults to 0.408.""",
     )
-    @Substitution(subset=subset)
+    @Substitution(subset=subset_args)
     def background_gradient(
         self,
         cmap: str | Colormap = "PuBu",
@@ -2868,7 +2868,7 @@ def text_gradient(
             text_only=True,
         )
 
-    @Substitution(subset=subset)
+    @Substitution(subset=subset_args)
     def set_properties(self, subset: Subset | None = None, **kwargs) -> Styler:
         """
         Set defined CSS-properties to each ``<td>`` HTML element for the given subset.
@@ -2900,7 +2900,7 @@ def set_properties(self, subset: Subset | None = None, **kwargs) -> Styler:
         values = "".join([f"{p}: {v};" for p, v in kwargs.items()])
         return self.applymap(lambda x: values, subset=subset)
 
-    @Substitution(subset=subset)
+    @Substitution(subset=subset_args)
     def bar(  # pylint: disable=disallowed-name
         self,
         subset: Subset | None = None,
@@ -3023,7 +3023,11 @@ def bar(  # pylint: disable=disallowed-name
 
         return self
 
-    @Substitution(subset=subset, props=props, color=color.format(default="red"))
+    @Substitution(
+        subset=subset_args,
+        props=properties_args,
+        color=coloring_args.format(default="red"),
+    )
     def highlight_null(
         self,
         color: str = "red",
@@ -3066,7 +3070,11 @@ def f(data: DataFrame, props: str) -> np.ndarray:
             props = f"background-color: {color};"
         return self.apply(f, axis=None, subset=subset, props=props)
 
-    @Substitution(subset=subset, color=color.format(default="yellow"), props=props)
+    @Substitution(
+        subset=subset_args,
+        color=coloring_args.format(default="yellow"),
+        props=properties_args,
+    )
     def highlight_max(
         self,
         subset: Subset | None = None,
@@ -3110,7 +3118,11 @@ def highlight_max(
             props=props,
         )
 
-    @Substitution(subset=subset, color=color.format(default="yellow"), props=props)
+    @Substitution(
+        subset=subset_args,
+        color=coloring_args.format(default="yellow"),
+        props=properties_args,
+    )
     def highlight_min(
         self,
         subset: Subset | None = None,
@@ -3154,7 +3166,11 @@ def highlight_min(
             props=props,
         )
 
-    @Substitution(subset=subset, color=color.format(default="yellow"), props=props)
+    @Substitution(
+        subset=subset_args,
+        color=coloring_args.format(default="yellow"),
+        props=properties_args,
+    )
     def highlight_between(
         self,
         subset: Subset | None = None,
@@ -3258,7 +3274,11 @@ def highlight_between(
             inclusive=inclusive,
         )
 
-    @Substitution(subset=subset, color=color.format(default="yellow"), props=props)
+    @Substitution(
+        subset=subset_args,
+        color=coloring_args.format(default="yellow"),
+        props=properties_args,
+    )
     def highlight_quantile(
         self,
         subset: Subset | None = None,
@@ -3597,17 +3617,19 @@ def _background_gradient(
     else:  # else validate gmap against the underlying data
         gmap = _validate_apply_axis_arg(gmap, "gmap", float, data)
 
-    with _mpl(Styler.background_gradient) as (plt, mpl):
+    with _mpl(Styler.background_gradient) as (_, _matplotlib):
         smin = np.nanmin(gmap) if vmin is None else vmin
         smax = np.nanmax(gmap) if vmax is None else vmax
         rng = smax - smin
         # extend lower / upper bounds, compresses color range
-        norm = mpl.colors.Normalize(smin - (rng * low), smax + (rng * high))
+        norm = _matplotlib.colors.Normalize(smin - (rng * low), smax + (rng * high))
 
         if cmap is None:
-            rgbas = mpl.colormaps[mpl.rcParams["image.cmap"]](norm(gmap))
+            rgbas = _matplotlib.colormaps[_matplotlib.rcParams["image.cmap"]](
+                norm(gmap)
+            )
         else:
-            rgbas = mpl.colormaps.get_cmap(cmap)(norm(gmap))
+            rgbas = _matplotlib.colormaps.get_cmap(cmap)(norm(gmap))
 
         def relative_luminance(rgba) -> float:
             """
@@ -3636,10 +3658,11 @@ def css(rgba, text_only) -> str:
                 dark = relative_luminance(rgba) < text_color_threshold
                 text_color = "#f1f1f1" if dark else "#000000"
                 return (
-                    f"background-color: {mpl.colors.rgb2hex(rgba)};color: {text_color};"
+                    f"background-color: {_matplotlib.colors.rgb2hex(rgba)};"
+                    + f"color: {text_color};"
                 )
             else:
-                return f"color: {mpl.colors.rgb2hex(rgba)};"
+                return f"color: {_matplotlib.colors.rgb2hex(rgba)};"
 
         if data.ndim == 1:
             return [css(rgba, text_only) for rgba in rgbas]
@@ -3885,18 +3908,20 @@ def css_calc(x, left: float, right: float, align: str, color: str | list | tuple
     rgbas = None
     if cmap is not None:
         # use the matplotlib colormap input
-        with _mpl(Styler.bar) as (plt, mpl):
+        with _mpl(Styler.bar) as (_, _matplotlib):
             cmap = (
-                mpl.colormaps[cmap]
+                _matplotlib.colormaps[cmap]
                 if isinstance(cmap, str)
                 else cmap  # assumed to be a Colormap instance as documented
             )
-            norm = mpl.colors.Normalize(left, right)
+            norm = _matplotlib.colors.Normalize(left, right)
             rgbas = cmap(norm(values))
             if data.ndim == 1:
-                rgbas = [mpl.colors.rgb2hex(rgba) for rgba in rgbas]
+                rgbas = [_matplotlib.colors.rgb2hex(rgba) for rgba in rgbas]
             else:
-                rgbas = [[mpl.colors.rgb2hex(rgba) for rgba in row] for row in rgbas]
+                rgbas = [
+                    [_matplotlib.colors.rgb2hex(rgba) for rgba in row] for row in rgbas
+                ]
 
     assert isinstance(align, str)  # mypy: should now be in [left, right, mid, zero]
     if data.ndim == 1:
diff --git a/pandas/io/json/_json.py b/pandas/io/json/_json.py
index d6c154962ad83..3020731b77a3c 100644
--- a/pandas/io/json/_json.py
+++ b/pandas/io/json/_json.py
@@ -21,7 +21,10 @@
 
 import numpy as np
 
-from pandas._libs import json
+from pandas._libs.json import (
+    dumps,
+    loads,
+)
 from pandas._libs.tslibs import iNaT
 from pandas._typing import (
     CompressionOptions,
@@ -73,9 +76,6 @@
 
 FrameSeriesStrT = TypeVar("FrameSeriesStrT", bound=Literal["frame", "series"])
 
-loads = json.loads
-dumps = json.dumps
-
 
 # interface to/from
 @overload
diff --git a/pandas/io/xml.py b/pandas/io/xml.py
index b5973257b8ee2..4f61455826286 100644
--- a/pandas/io/xml.py
+++ b/pandas/io/xml.py
@@ -533,9 +533,9 @@ def _parse_doc(
 
         with preprocess_data(handle_data) as xml_data:
             curr_parser = XMLParser(encoding=self.encoding)
-            doc = parse(xml_data, parser=curr_parser)
+            document = parse(xml_data, parser=curr_parser)
 
-        return doc.getroot()
+        return document.getroot()
 
 
 class _LxmlFrameParser(_XMLFrameParser):
@@ -648,13 +648,13 @@ def _parse_doc(
                         "Can not pass encoding None when input is StringIO."
                     )
 
-                doc = fromstring(
+                document = fromstring(
                     xml_data.getvalue().encode(self.encoding), parser=curr_parser
                 )
             else:
-                doc = parse(xml_data, parser=curr_parser)
+                document = parse(xml_data, parser=curr_parser)
 
-        return doc
+        return document
 
     def _transform_doc(self) -> _XSLTResultTree:
         """