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Recent Examples of morpheme
In a multistage process of evolution, words describing diverse body parts had changed into morphemes referring to different zones and fused with content words to yield meaning.
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Anvita Abbi, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
The slips of paper contained the morphemes, which are the building blocks for the entire language.
—Ian Austen, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2023
Each of the, say, two hundred and fifty passengers on each flight hanging unwittingly on each morpheme.
—Gregory Pardlo, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2017
Anvita Abbi, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
The slips of paper contained the morphemes, which are the building blocks for the entire language.
—Ian Austen, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2023
Each of the, say, two hundred and fifty passengers on each flight hanging unwittingly on each morpheme.
—Gregory Pardlo, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for morpheme
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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
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By integrating tariff data with sales performance, market trends, and regulatory frameworks, Rensi can pinpoint inefficiencies, detect policy misalignments, and recommend corrective actions—ranging from renegotiating supplier terms to adjusting pricing strategies.—
Nish Acharya,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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In his second term, states’ rights, once a rallying cry for conservatives, are under pressure.—
Christian Datoc,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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Scientists speculate that this could be an expression of mourning or an instinctual effort to understand the loss.—
Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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Scorn is a salve for her—an enjoyable expression of her fastidious nature and a coping strategy.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Sep. 2025
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And comparing more recent historic forms of English and Sranan to get at centuries-old linguistic forms isn’t ironclad, Creanza pointed out.—
Cathleen O'Grady,
Ars Technica,
14 Mar. 2018
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“Morpheme.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/morpheme. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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