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Recent Examples of linguist
That view was challenged in a recent paper by Gašper Beguš, a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley; Maksymilian Dąbkowski, who recently received his doctorate in linguistics at Berkeley; and Ryan Rhodes of Rutgers University.
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Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 31 Oct. 2025
My father worked as a military linguist with a specialty in Mandarin Chinese and Russian.
—Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025
But that's nothing new, say linguists and others who study verbal communication.
—Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 5 Oct. 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
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Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 31 Oct. 2025
My father worked as a military linguist with a specialty in Mandarin Chinese and Russian.
—Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025
But that's nothing new, say linguists and others who study verbal communication.
—Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 5 Oct. 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for linguist
Noun
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For extra literary merit, the screenplay was co-written by novelist Emma Donoghue, with director Philippa Lowthorpe.—
Emily Temple,
Literary Hub,
12 Jan. 2026
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And Henry's work also helped Kuang to visualize her own path as a novelist.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
9 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Celebrate fresh voices and first-time storytellers making their mark by choosing a debut novel.—
Ashlee Conour,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Jan. 2026
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New York storyteller Laura Sims leads workshops and performs stories on Saturday and Sunday during the Atlanta Jewish Storytelling Festival at The Breman.—
Mary Caldwell,
AJC.com,
7 Jan. 2026
Noun
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May Teng is an Indonesian-American writer and essayist based in Brooklyn.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Jan. 2026
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Meg Bernhard is a journalist and essayist based in Las Vegas.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
7 Jan. 2026
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Her story remains fractured—saint, prophet, brand, fabulist—but her status as one of modernism’s most disruptive figures is secure.—
Alice Gregory,
New Yorker,
16 Nov. 2025
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The multimillionaire financier, who died in federal custody in 2019, was also a fabulist and serial illusionist.—
Shirsho Dasgupta,
Miami Herald,
15 Nov. 2025
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“Linguist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/linguist. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.
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