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also linguistical
as in verbal
of or relating to words or language
the age at which children begin to acquire linguistic skills
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Recent Examples of linguistic
Klara Liden, an artist working across the registers of the embodied, spatial, and linguistic, remains productively undecided.
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Erika Landström, Artforum, 2 June 2026
Local partners can also prove invaluable, especially when there is a significant linguistic and/or cultural gap.
—Midhat Zwayen, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
In the turbulent postwar years through the height of the Cold War, this tenet was a guiding light for the artist, who viewed his work as a way to communicate across linguistic, racial, and religious differences.
—Jessica George, JSTOR Daily, 27 May 2026
For millions of South Asian, Black American, Persian, Latino, West and East African, and European Muslims, the app bridges the linguistic gap.
—Andrew R. Chow, Time, 26 May 2026
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Erika Landström, Artforum, 2 June 2026
Local partners can also prove invaluable, especially when there is a significant linguistic and/or cultural gap.
—Midhat Zwayen, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
In the turbulent postwar years through the height of the Cold War, this tenet was a guiding light for the artist, who viewed his work as a way to communicate across linguistic, racial, and religious differences.
—Jessica George, JSTOR Daily, 27 May 2026
For millions of South Asian, Black American, Persian, Latino, West and East African, and European Muslims, the app bridges the linguistic gap.
—Andrew R. Chow, Time, 26 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for linguistic
Adjective
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Rick is tightly scheduled, punctilious to a fault, endowed with verbal wit that gently but firmly shapes and smooths social interactions.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
29 May 2026
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Refusing to follow verbal or printed instructions or cooperate with park personnel or security.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
29 May 2026
Adjective
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According to the researchers, the findings suggest that infants become sensitive to the communicative and intentional nature of human gaze during the first year of life.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
1 June 2026
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Being multiliterate also implies that the contemporary hypertext and hypermedia user is endowed with a capacity of discernment regarding which semiotic modes can be most efficiently employed to carry a specific communicative load.—
Carmen Daniela Maier,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
26 May 2026
Adjective
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Further complicating the mustelids’ lexical family tree, the Haida ermine, found on islands off the Pacific Northwest coast, was also once considered a subspecies of the common stoat, but is now recognized as its own species.—
Harmeet Kaur,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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Laborious yet lithe lads and lasses have loyally leapt to luminate the lexical labyrinths of logic locking the lucrative lotto, longing to lure the lavish luxury lying latently in local landmarks.—
Jared Kaufman,
Twin Cities,
28 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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There has never quite been a critical or scholarly consensus about them, but Bellini, whose music is suspended somewhere between Rossini’s precise brilliance and Donizetti’s rhetorical force, can move audiences with his melodic facility.—
Arya Roshanian,
The New York Review of Books,
6 June 2026
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Those include rhetorical shifts, partnerships with brokerage platforms and teaming up with companies to develop necessary infrastructure.—
Davis Giangiulio,
CNBC,
1 June 2026
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“Linguistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/linguistic. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.
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