How to Use natural language in a Sentence

natural language

noun
  • The attack surface is now natural language.
    Harsh Singhal, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • If natural language becomes the front end for more workflows, the real moat is no longer just usability.
    Tim Keary, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • This way anyone can ask anything about a customer in natural language and be completely up to date on their relationship.
    Gene Marks, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • First, write each email as if speaking to one specific person, using casual, natural language.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • Everything can be done using natural language instead of obscure line commands.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • The planning of your trip would be easy due to the natural language fluency of generative AI.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
  • Vibe coding also may signal a shift that could make natural language a more viable tool for developing some computer programs.
    Chetan Jaiswal, The Conversation, 4 June 2025
  • Instead of browsing menus or searching manually, users can describe their intent in natural language and let the system handle the task.
    Filip Borcov, Forbes.com, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Just change a natural language prompt that generally supersedes everything else.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • First, natural language reduces the learning curve, making the field more accessible to people with strong judgment but less tool-specific training.
    Ipsita Mohanty, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • If users struggle to know which tool to use, a natural language layer that interprets the request and routes it to the right tool can genuinely help (think Claude connectors).
    Mateusz Mucha, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • The company is enlarging the dimensions of the search box to expand and better accommodate the natural language queries that users can now make with AI.
    Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 19 May 2026
  • Some products have added AI chatbots to walk users through setup, because AI can answer follow-up questions in natural language.
    Mateusz Mucha, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • The scientists also found that accuracy increased when the players communicated with snippets of code rather than natural language.
    Peter Hall, Scientific American, 8 May 2026
  • Practically, this means replacing complex query languages in platforms with user-friendly, natural language search and visuals, as well as drag-and-drop dashboards.
    Prathamesh Bhingarde, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Netflix now integrates generative AI and natural language processing to help discern what a viewer is in the mood to watch, Stone said.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 4 June 2026
  • Students also have access to 14 AI courses on topics such as deep learning, natural language processing and data science.
    Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 25 June 2026
  • Unlike natural language, which is abundant and broadly uniform in structure, tabular data is relatively hard to find—much of the data is sensitive or proprietary—and diverse.
    Benjamin Skuse, IEEE Spectrum, 9 July 2026
  • At the center of the shift are AI coding tools like Claude Code that can generate software with natural language prompts, reducing the need for engineers to write it line by line.
    Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 9 July 2026
  • With natural language interfaces, large language models and agentic systems, analysts no longer need to master every query language, dashboard or configuration menu.
    Ipsita Mohanty, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • In Spreadsheet, natural language queries generate analysis and visualizations from raw data.
    Vivian Toh, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
  • The product's defining trait is its intelligence in execution—turning natural language into finished deliverables.
    Vivian Toh, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • The tech giant's next-generation Proteus is an autonomous mobile robot, which is designed to understand natural language commands from workers and transport items in warehouses.
    Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 5 June 2026
  • Using natural language prompts, users can ask the system to pull actuals, combine them with uploaded CSVs, detect mismatches, and build out a financial model—all while showing its work step by step.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 10 June 2026
  • Another approach gaining traction is democratizing test authoring through natural language.
    Mudit Singh, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • The first project centers on software that allows soldiers to control multiple unmanned robots simultaneously using natural language commands rather than separate controllers for each machine.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 28 May 2026
  • On Tuesday, the company unveiled Dana, a new service that allows developers to use natural language to simplify the building and testing of autonomous machines.
    Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 21 July 2026
  • LLMs excel at handling ambiguity and interpreting intent in natural language.
    Kevin Boyle, Forbes.com, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Shourya Vir Jain is CEO at RamAIn, which enables automating any UI task with natural language.
    Shourya Vir Jain, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • Some companies, my own included, feed those observations, combined with a task described in natural language, into vision-language-action (VLA) models.
    Rishabh Chanana, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026

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