as in ungrammatical
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Adjective
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But if language exemplifies the human capacity for internalizing grammatical conventions, then my moment of rule-breaking does not in fact expose some ungrammatical first nature.—
Harmon Siegel,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025 -
And in general, the A.I. bots were useful for sharpening prose and cleaning up clunky, ungrammatical sentences.—
Brian X. Chen,
New York Times,
1 Feb. 2023
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No army in history seemed ever to have been more ragged and motley and mongrel and polyglot than the Continental, rich and poor, learned and illiterate, from boys to old men, skilled and unskilled, born all over the world, speaking dozens of languages, believing in different gods and in no god.—
Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
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Carrying news, satire and story into places where expensive books had seldom reached, they were sold for pennies, tacked to alehouse walls and sung aloud for the illiterate.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
8 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Improper techniques or substandard equipment can leave residue in your carpets, ironically attracting more dirt over time.—
Jennifer Beck Goldblatt,
Architectural Digest,
31 Oct. 2025
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Because when the status quo in sub-Saharan Africa is so unsatisfactory—with substandard education, healthcare, security, and so on—these tend to be the focus of domestic resources.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Unidiomatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unidiomatic. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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