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also linguistical
as in verbal
of or relating to words or language
the age at which children begin to acquire linguistic skills
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Recent Examples of linguistic
Terao Tetsuya’s linguistic landscape expands at times beyond Mandarin to draw on Japanese and Taiwanese Hokkien.
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Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
Behind these numbers are fewer opportunities for heritage speakers to study their family’s language, fewer pipelines training K–12 teachers, and fewer chances for students at public universities to gain access to the linguistic skills global employers demand.
—Annie K. Lamar, Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2025
Professor Hao Li, a leading expert in video synthesis, told CNBC that most AI systems today are still trained on linguistic data like books and internet text.
—Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
By adding sixth grade, Cruz said the school was able to hire a part-time music teacher, who also can speak Spanish and integrate cultural and linguistic activities into music instruction.
—Alec Johnson, jsonline.com, 29 Sep. 2025
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Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
Behind these numbers are fewer opportunities for heritage speakers to study their family’s language, fewer pipelines training K–12 teachers, and fewer chances for students at public universities to gain access to the linguistic skills global employers demand.
—Annie K. Lamar, Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2025
Professor Hao Li, a leading expert in video synthesis, told CNBC that most AI systems today are still trained on linguistic data like books and internet text.
—Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
By adding sixth grade, Cruz said the school was able to hire a part-time music teacher, who also can speak Spanish and integrate cultural and linguistic activities into music instruction.
—Alec Johnson, jsonline.com, 29 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for linguistic
Adjective
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There’s physical language, but not verbal.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
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On screen, Lawrence and Pattinson hurl nonstop insults at each other in loud bursts of verbal warfare, a striking contrast to the duo’s quieter working relationship.—
Antonio Ferme,
Variety,
2 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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The uncertainty has been hard, even with suppliers being communicative and transparent.—
Roxana Popescu,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Oct. 2025
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That started in huddles, with a demonstrably more communicative Jokic.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Barrett designed a reading program to help flag emerging lexical items and turbocharge additions, tripling the volume of new words added in the site’s periodic updates over the course of a year.—
Stefan Fatsis,
The Atlantic,
13 Sep. 2025
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Templates enforce everything from slide masters to the lexical choices that signal risk levels; the model should not be able to invent metrics or rewrite disclaimers.—
Noah Ohrner,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
Adjective
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Bannon’s fantasy functions as a rhetorical weapon—a way of probing how far the cult of personality can go before the rule of law pushes back.—
Dan Perry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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The rhetorical battle over blame and ending the federal government shutdown is getting hotter, at least for some in Arizona’s congressional delegation.—
Ronald J. Hansen,
AZCentral.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Linguistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/linguistic. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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