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Recent Examples of linguistic form
And comparing more recent historic forms of English and Sranan to get at centuries-old linguistic forms isn’t ironclad, Creanza pointed out.
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Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2018
Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for linguistic form
Noun
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This system frees up space for speeches to be more interesting, as seen in Sheryl Lee Ralph’s musical interpolation of the acceptance-speech form.—
Vulture,
Vulture,
12 Sep. 2022
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Tam argues that these speech forms are not just dialects but distinct languages, as different from one another as many of the languages spoken in Europe.—
Gina Anne Tam,
Foreign Affairs,
20 Apr. 2021
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And so, while the two talked at and around Andy Warhol and to each other, Warhol sat with his tiny dachshund, Archie Bunker, in his lap and snapped the reporters’ pictures with his new Polaroid camera, answering direct questions with shrugs or vague monosyllables.—
Stephen Birmingham,
Town & Country,
10 Aug. 2023
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Hearing this jab of monosyllables is like being poked in the eye.—
Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2023
Noun
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The progressive Democrat resigned from the City Council on July 4, two months after her conviction and a year and half into her second, two-year term.—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
16 Oct. 2025
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The 17-year-long lease will commence at the start of 2026, with two five-year renewal options when the term expires in June 2043, the documents state.—
Matthew Geiger,
Denver Post,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Linguistic form.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/linguistic%20form. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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