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But in little more than an hour, their questions and comments will lead the 25-year-old Winner, an Air Force veteran and linguist working for a National Security Agency contractor, to confess to mailing a classified intelligence document to a news organization.
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Jim Higgins,
jsonline.com,
24 Mar. 2026
These rules are simplified from a set proposed by anthropologist Brent Berlin and linguist Paul Kay in 1969.
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Emma R. Hasson,
Scientific American,
19 Mar. 2026
One of those dissenters was the linguist Mark Liberman, who lambasted the word numerous times over the years in his blog Language Log.
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Harmeet Kaur,
CNN Money,
25 Feb. 2026
At the forefront of that work is Daria Valentin, a Ladin linguist born and raised in Val Badia.
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Rebecca Tauber,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2026
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Jim Higgins,
jsonline.com,
24 Mar. 2026
These rules are simplified from a set proposed by anthropologist Brent Berlin and linguist Paul Kay in 1969.
—
Emma R. Hasson,
Scientific American,
19 Mar. 2026
One of those dissenters was the linguist Mark Liberman, who lambasted the word numerous times over the years in his blog Language Log.
—
Harmeet Kaur,
CNN Money,
25 Feb. 2026
At the forefront of that work is Daria Valentin, a Ladin linguist born and raised in Val Badia.
—
Rebecca Tauber,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for linguist
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Spencer went on to marry Raine, Countess of Dartmouth — her mother was the romantic fiction novelist Barbara Cartland, who showered Diana’s world with pulp romance.
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James Lasdun’s new book, The Family Man, reckons with the Alex Murdaugh murder case, which the poet, novelist, screenwriter, and short-story writer covered for The New Yorker.
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Far from lumps of rock, the trojans, along with DJ and Dinkinesh (which is the Ethiopian name for the Lucy fossil), are windows into the past, and the storytellers of the Earth's most ancient history.
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Sun Yi is an award-winning personal brand strategist, storyteller, TEDx speaker, podcaster, and founder of Night Owls and Night Owl Nation.
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James Baldwin, a poet, activist and essayist, is one of the most influential figures in American history.
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There also lies the influence of Chilean essayist Pedro Lemebel, braided into Delgado Lopera’s narrative of a father, Ignacio; his 12-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Valentina; and his trans mother, Mamadora Eléctrica, inspired by the author’s own trans mother, Adela Vázquez.
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As an auto-fictionist or a minimalist—whatever.
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The Dowd Voicers are either clueless about the facts or, like their hero Trump, are simply fabulists making up numbers to suit their biased narrative.
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For Smith, in his hopes and oversights, was a fabulist as much as a scientist, a man doing theology as surely as economics.
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“Linguist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/linguist. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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