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
It’s not critically endangered like some minority languages across the world, with locals growing up speaking Ladin alongside Italian, and cultural and linguistic protections ensuring Ladin is taught in schools.
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Rebecca Tauber, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
Epistemia is a name for a flaw in how people interpret these models, in which linguistic plausibility is taken as a surrogate for truth.
—Walter Quattrociocchi, Scientific American, 18 Feb. 2026
There’s some truth to that pattern, said Jonathan Rosa, a linguistic anthropologist and associate professor at Stanford University.
—Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 17 Feb. 2026
Likewise, LLMs now demonstrably achieve forms of linguistic competence that match or exceed human performance across many domains.
—Deb Roy, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2026
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Rebecca Tauber, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
Epistemia is a name for a flaw in how people interpret these models, in which linguistic plausibility is taken as a surrogate for truth.
—Walter Quattrociocchi, Scientific American, 18 Feb. 2026
There’s some truth to that pattern, said Jonathan Rosa, a linguistic anthropologist and associate professor at Stanford University.
—Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 17 Feb. 2026
Likewise, LLMs now demonstrably achieve forms of linguistic competence that match or exceed human performance across many domains.
—Deb Roy, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for linguistic
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The lawmakers cited the case of a deaf and non-verbal DACA recipient with no criminal history who was detained last year amid the immigration raids in Los Angeles.—
Andrea Castillo,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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That made Friday afternoon’s summary judgment hearing the first public glimpse of bad blood between Dallas’ NBA and NHL franchises, with their respective attorneys trading verbal blows for a little more than two hours in Texas Business Court.—
Brad Townsend,
Dallas Morning News,
6 Mar. 2026
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From the get-go, Vespaio was incredibly kind and communicative when planning our rehearsal dinner.—
Matthew Odam,
Austin American Statesman,
27 Feb. 2026
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The steering, though somewhat isolated due to the car’s grand-touring disposition, feels communicative enough to enable and encourage rather spirited cornering.—
Basem Wasef,
Robb Report,
25 Feb. 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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While both candidates held progressive policy positions on issues like healthcare, the difference between them centered on communication style, with Talarico’s softer rhetorical approach resonating with voters through appeals to unity and a vision of hope[1].—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Mar. 2026
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Talarico is a vision of a Democratic future reminiscent of high points from the Party’s recent past—rhetorical precision, hopes, dreams.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
New Yorker,
4 Mar. 2026
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“Linguistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/linguistic. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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