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The Wild Faith to Take Over America — all of which had titles and paragraphs similar to her work but full of spelling, factual, and grammatical errors.
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Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2025
Tender Buttons is a celebration of mutability, a rejoinder to rules, where words are set free from the shackles of meaning and grammatical function, made unfamiliar, and charged with power to make the world afresh.
—Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
But if language exemplifies the human capacity for internalizing grammatical conventions, then my moment of rule-breaking does not in fact expose some ungrammatical first nature.
—Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
Other signs this is a scam include references to toll booths, which Arizona doesn't have; citing a law that isn't real; and misspellings and grammatical errors in the text messages.
—Shelby Slade, AZCentral.com, 6 Aug. 2025
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Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2025
Tender Buttons is a celebration of mutability, a rejoinder to rules, where words are set free from the shackles of meaning and grammatical function, made unfamiliar, and charged with power to make the world afresh.
—Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
But if language exemplifies the human capacity for internalizing grammatical conventions, then my moment of rule-breaking does not in fact expose some ungrammatical first nature.
—Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
Other signs this is a scam include references to toll booths, which Arizona doesn't have; citing a law that isn't real; and misspellings and grammatical errors in the text messages.
—Shelby Slade, AZCentral.com, 6 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grammatical
Adjective
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Newman’s experience translating a beloved, atmospheric novel to screen is directly relevant here — balancing a book’s literary identity with cinematic storytelling is no small feat, and her selection suggests Netflix is taking the source material seriously.—
Hanna Wickes,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
11 Mar. 2026
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Deep reading is a kind of literary applause.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
11 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Nowlan is absolutely correct about the suffering and heartache caused by gambling disorders, which lead directly to bankruptcy, divorce, foreclosure and suicide.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Mar. 2026
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Only 43% made the correct decision about next steps, such as whether to go to the emergency room or stay home.—
Katia Riddle,
NPR,
11 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Unable to afford a proper burial, the victim’s husband and daughter have created a GoFundMe to help pay for services.—
Emma Seiwell,
New York Daily News,
12 Mar. 2026
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Other clips don’t even bother rendering a proper baby.—
Joe Wilkins Published Mar 12,
Futurism,
12 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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For professionals who work with contracts, reports, invoices, or academic documents, PDF Agile consolidates essential PDF functions into a single lifetime license without ongoing subscription fees.—
StackCommerce Team,
PC Magazine,
9 Mar. 2026
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They are left scarred and live on quietly together as their academic careers fall apart.—
Meg Walters,
Glamour,
9 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Under the law, the remaining earls, viscounts and dukes who inherited their seats in the chamber along with their aristocratic titles will leave Parliament for good when the current session concludes this spring.—
Peter Weber,
TheWeek,
12 Mar. 2026
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On Tuesday night, members of the upper chamber dropped objections to legislation passed by the House of Commons ousting dozens of dukes, earls and viscounts who inherited seats in Parliament along with their aristocratic titles.—
Jill Lawless,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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In the 20th century, as technology made workers more efficient and people became more educated, human capital in America became much more valuable.—
Allison Schrager,
Twin Cities,
8 Mar. 2026
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The Democratic coalition was disproportionately young, lower-income, less educated, and nonwhite—all demographics that were less likely to vote and more likely to be prevented from doing so if friction was added to the voting process.—
Marc Novicoff,
The Atlantic,
26 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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However bookish my ideal of it, going to Antarctica aligned with my idea of myself as tough, independent, and not old.—
Cree LeFavour,
New Yorker,
7 Mar. 2026
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Thomas Harris grew up in the South as a bookish outcast, reading the works of Ernest Hemingway and Jonathan Swift.—
Costa Beavin Pappas,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Mar. 2026
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“Grammatical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grammatical. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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