variants
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
Nitsuh Abebe on Pete Hegeth’s linguistic obsession.
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Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
This, combined with the researchers’ other findings, seems to suggest that multimodal models barely use the visual inputs they are given at all and instead lean heavily on linguistic patterns even when being asked to analyze images.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2026
For a weekend, a gazillion distinctive fan communities blur into a linguistic utopia.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
That linguistic clue is not accidental.
—Rabbi Bruce D. Forman, Sun Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2026
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Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
This, combined with the researchers’ other findings, seems to suggest that multimodal models barely use the visual inputs they are given at all and instead lean heavily on linguistic patterns even when being asked to analyze images.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2026
For a weekend, a gazillion distinctive fan communities blur into a linguistic utopia.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
That linguistic clue is not accidental.
—Rabbi Bruce D. Forman, Sun Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for linguistic
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Officers responded to a 911 call and were informed of a verbal dispute that escalated into a physical altercation, the department told Footwear News.—
Ian Servantes,
Footwear News,
10 Apr. 2026
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Given that Trump never knowingly engages in understatement, this is a rare example of verbal deflation.—
Fintan O’Toole,
The New York Review of Books,
9 Apr. 2026
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This will set you both up for a healthier and more communicative relationship or will save you from spending time with someone whose values don’t align with yours.—
Eric Thomas,
Sun Sentinel,
11 Apr. 2026
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The emerging field calls for more refined methods to determine whether fungal electrical signaling plays a functional, communicative role.—
Samantha Agate,
Kansas City Star,
30 Mar. 2026
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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
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The proliferation of letters in the New Testament is also typical of second-century literary activity; letters written as rhetorical models, using the epistolary form as an intimate vehicle for argument, are everywhere in the later period.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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Its sustained support for armed proxy groups in the region — organizations that openly seek Israel’s destruction — demonstrates that this is not merely rhetorical.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Linguistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/linguistic. Accessed 16 Apr. 2026.
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