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Recent Examples of linguist
New York Times columnist, best-selling author, linguist and Columbia University professor John McWhorter doesn't shy away from controversy and isn't afraid to offend people.
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Mo Rocca,
CBS News,
24 May 2026
With daily-speaker numbers declining census after census, linguist Conchúr Ó Giollagáin warned in 2015 that Irish as a living language — as opposed to a school subject, Duolingo hobby, or urban identity badge — could be gone in about 10 years.
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Big Think,
4 May 2026
Babbel’s lessons are built by linguists, with a focus on real conversations, cultural context, and practical dialogue.
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Stackcommerce Team,
PC Magazine,
4 Apr. 2026
But in little more than an hour, their questions and comments will lead the 25-year-old Winner, an Air Force veteran and linguist working for a National Security Agency contractor, to confess to mailing a classified intelligence document to a news organization.
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Jim Higgins,
jsonline.com,
24 Mar. 2026
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Mo Rocca,
CBS News,
24 May 2026
With daily-speaker numbers declining census after census, linguist Conchúr Ó Giollagáin warned in 2015 that Irish as a living language — as opposed to a school subject, Duolingo hobby, or urban identity badge — could be gone in about 10 years.
—
Big Think,
4 May 2026
Babbel’s lessons are built by linguists, with a focus on real conversations, cultural context, and practical dialogue.
—
Stackcommerce Team,
PC Magazine,
4 Apr. 2026
But in little more than an hour, their questions and comments will lead the 25-year-old Winner, an Air Force veteran and linguist working for a National Security Agency contractor, to confess to mailing a classified intelligence document to a news organization.
—
Jim Higgins,
jsonline.com,
24 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for linguist
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The Denver horror novelist was diagnosed with breast cancer last year and endured a lumpectomy, four rounds of chemotherapy and a double mastectomy.
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The 2025 Laureate in Literature, the Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai, made no mention of humanity’s future.
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Because the alcohol drives the storytellers toward vernacular expression, these pieces can seem more alive and authentic, more relatable, than big-budget, big-screen productions.
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Mallaby, a longtime financial journalist, is a nimble storyteller, and his portrait of one of the single-minded personalities plunging the world into an uncertain future is also an engaging drama of discovery.
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James Baldwin, a poet, activist and essayist, is one of the most influential figures in American history.
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There also lies the influence of Chilean essayist Pedro Lemebel, braided into Delgado Lopera’s narrative of a father, Ignacio; his 12-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Valentina; and his trans mother, Mamadora Eléctrica, inspired by the author’s own trans mother, Adela Vázquez.
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As an auto-fictionist or a minimalist—whatever.
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Odysseus is a warrior with wit and intellect, a con man and fabulist who constantly reinvents himself.
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The Dowd Voicers are either clueless about the facts or, like their hero Trump, are simply fabulists making up numbers to suit their biased narrative.
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“Linguist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/linguist. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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