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The low performance was largely driven by the fact that large language models tended to overestimate the degree to which a noun-noun pair qualified as meaningful.
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Rutvik Desai, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2025
Our test involves judging the meaningfulness of two-word noun-noun phrases.
—Rutvik Desai, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2025
But there is no common usage of this noun-noun combination among English speakers.
—Rutvik Desai, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2025
The term is an adjective that has also become a noun, describing one of the most common analgesic procedures available in modern medicine.
—Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2025
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Rutvik Desai, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2025
Our test involves judging the meaningfulness of two-word noun-noun phrases.
—Rutvik Desai, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2025
But there is no common usage of this noun-noun combination among English speakers.
—Rutvik Desai, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2025
The term is an adjective that has also become a noun, describing one of the most common analgesic procedures available in modern medicine.
—Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for noun
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First Acts: From the symbolic to the substantive, here is a look at what nine new governors elected last year have done in their first weeks in office.—
Maggie Astor,
New York Times,
30 Jan. 2023
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With his substantive, agreeably granular bass, David Grogan gave prophetic warnings real authority.—
Dallas News,
Dallas News,
23 Dec. 2022
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“Noun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noun. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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