as in linguistic
of or relating to words or language the school banned the book for vocabular reasons, as some parents objected to the author's use of profanity

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Adjective
  • Bennett is a writer of great linguistic inventiveness; her previous books, the short-story collection Pond and the novel Checkout 19, use surprising wordplay to evoke their narrators’ unique ways of interacting with the world.
    Rhian Sasseen, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Terao Tetsuya’s linguistic landscape expands at times beyond Mandarin to draw on Japanese and Taiwanese Hokkien.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • In a statement, the agency said officers issued multiple verbal commands for the driver to stop before opening fire when the vehicle continued to reverse toward them.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • James finds the wit in every line of Perkins’ script, playing his characters straight and with emotional depth while still showing an unerring instinct for where to place his verbal emphasis for maximum laughs as well as horror.
    Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • That started in huddles, with a demonstrably more communicative Jokic.
    Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Whitney Decker told the detective her ex-husband had always been communicative about their children and previously returned them when he was supposed to.
    Matt Lavietes, NBC news, 19 Sep. 2025
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  • Barrett designed a reading program to help flag emerging lexical items and turbocharge additions, tripling the volume of new words added in the site’s periodic updates over the course of a year.
    Stefan Fatsis, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Templates enforce everything from slide masters to the lexical choices that signal risk levels; the model should not be able to invent metrics or rewrite disclaimers.
    Noah Ohrner, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
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“Vocabular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vocabular. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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