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Recent Examples of linguist
Indeed, those details sometimes contradicted what linguists would predict based on previous research.
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Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2025
The security agency easily identified Winner, a crypto linguist, as the source of the leak.
—Terry Gross, NPR, 11 Sep. 2025
University of Washington linguist Emily Bender studies LLMs and has consistently warned that language models are simply unverified text synthesis machines.
—Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne, a pair of linguists who specialize in online language and gestures respectively, offered an answer.
—Longreads, 1 July 2025
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Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2025
The security agency easily identified Winner, a crypto linguist, as the source of the leak.
—Terry Gross, NPR, 11 Sep. 2025
University of Washington linguist Emily Bender studies LLMs and has consistently warned that language models are simply unverified text synthesis machines.
—Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne, a pair of linguists who specialize in online language and gestures respectively, offered an answer.
—Longreads, 1 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for linguist
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Lastly, My Roommate Is a Cat is the touching story of how a shy novelist named Mikazuki Subaru comes to live with a feline companion who was dumped by humans and lived a tough life on the streets.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 Oct. 2025
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The move has been welcomed by the indie film community as a sign of a more sympathetic approach from Egypt’s censorship board following the appointment this past spring of respected screenwriter and novelist Abdel Rahim Kamal as the head of the body.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
21 Oct. 2025
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But Pullman’s abilities as a storyteller are stupendous, and on full display.—
Lev Grossman,
The Atlantic,
23 Oct. 2025
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That’s the work of EA’s extraordinary artists, designers, developers, storytellers, and innovator.—
Jennifer Maas,
Variety,
23 Oct. 2025
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Having started his career as a film critic and essayist on YouTube, Stuckmann makes the transition to director with a horror movie that expertly blends media and feels at times like a mockumentary ripped right from the video platform.—
Jordan Moreau,
Variety,
24 Oct. 2025
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This summer, the novelist and essayist Jamaica Kincaid released a career-spanning collection.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
16 Oct. 2025
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Trouble doubles down with the arrival of Baroness Eloise Bosquet de Wagner Wehrhorn (Ana de Armas), a big-talking fabulist who arrives on the island like a Real Housewife of Floreana, with dreams of building a luxury hotel on the island.—
Adam Graham,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Aug. 2025
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Many people do not know when LLMs are lying to them, which is unsurprising given that the chatbots are very convincing fabulists, serving up slop with unflappable confidence to their unsuspecting audience.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Linguist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/linguist. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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