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Recent Examples of linguist
The word originally referred to a list of prices in the context of shipping, linguist and content creator Adam Aleksic told NPR.
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Rachel Treisman, NPR, 9 Apr. 2025
My obsession with this topic started with research from linguist Andrew Bray.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 12 Feb. 2025
But the cognitive scientist Asifa Majid, now of Oxford, and the linguist Niclas Burenhult, of Lund University, in Sweden, have shown that this needn’t be the case.
—Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
But the trio also emphasized the contributions of the production teams, which included designers, fight coordinators and a linguist who created Chakobsa, the language spoken by the Fremen in the film.
—Kai Naima Williams, Variety, 19 Dec. 2024
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Rachel Treisman, NPR, 9 Apr. 2025
My obsession with this topic started with research from linguist Andrew Bray.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 12 Feb. 2025
But the cognitive scientist Asifa Majid, now of Oxford, and the linguist Niclas Burenhult, of Lund University, in Sweden, have shown that this needn’t be the case.
—Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
But the trio also emphasized the contributions of the production teams, which included designers, fight coordinators and a linguist who created Chakobsa, the language spoken by the Fremen in the film.
—Kai Naima Williams, Variety, 19 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for linguist
Noun
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The internet is already a part of us, inside of us; and maybe what remains for the digital novelist is to get outside, to gather up the whole snarled mess of tubes and plunk it down on an examination table.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
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Cosby is a gifted novelist whose passionate writing about the modern South has garnered him much critical praise and the admiration of President Obama.—
Chris Vognar,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2025
Noun
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The best storytellers will use this technology to go faster but never shallower.—
Yael Klass,
Forbes.com,
13 May 2025
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Artists, the natural storytellers of our culture, couldn’t get platforms to share their vision.—
Kimberly Wilson,
Essence,
10 May 2025
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Lucky for us, the Chicago Humanities Festival has paired her with another fabulous genre-bending essayist — Evanston’s own Eula Biss.—
Jennifer Day,
Chicago Tribune,
9 May 2025
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So should Senator Schumer, by Mariel Garza, guest essayist, The New York Times.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
27 Mar. 2025
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The Irishman — long and boring, based on the self-serving memoirs of a fabulist and a creep — was supposed to be the film of the year.—
Bill Wyman,
Vulture,
28 Feb. 2025
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The infamous Long Island fabulist needs revenue from the podcast to pay the $205,000 in forfeiture cash that would be due a month before sentencing, his lawyers wrote in a letter to Federal Court Judge Joanna Seybert.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
8 Jan. 2025
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“Linguist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/linguist. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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