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The word "dog" is a noun.
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Little Dog asks, an insipid comparison that illuminates only the fungibility of abstract nouns.
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Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 6 May 2025
Even brands, once nouns wrapped in mythology, are being reconstituted as verbs.
—Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
Other statements, or parts of them, litter the stages: nouns and verbs and objects, all of which can be re-arranged to change the rules of said stage.
—Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 6 May 2025
Beginning in 2006, and against conventional wisdom, Li envisioned a dataset of images covering every noun in the English language.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 Mar. 2025
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Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 6 May 2025
Even brands, once nouns wrapped in mythology, are being reconstituted as verbs.
—Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
Other statements, or parts of them, litter the stages: nouns and verbs and objects, all of which can be re-arranged to change the rules of said stage.
—Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 6 May 2025
Beginning in 2006, and against conventional wisdom, Li envisioned a dataset of images covering every noun in the English language.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 Mar. 2025
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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 12 Jul. 2025.
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