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The Headstrong Project As a former cryptologic linguist with the U.S. Air Force attached to the intelligence community, Tahlia Burton dos Santos translated Pashto in real time to identify and subvert threats to military service men and women in Afghanistan.
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Robin Roenker, USA Today, 21 May 2025
Developing standardized yet flexible protocols for these qualitative assessments is an ongoing research area, demanding collaboration between computer scientists, psychologists, ethicists, linguists, and human-computer interaction experts.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
Sonia eventually earned a Ph.D. and is now a computational linguist for a major tech company.
—Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2025
Some linguists and other scientists have been quick to point out that chimpanzee communication is far less flexible and complicated than human language.
—Jon Hamilton, NPR, 12 May 2025
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Robin Roenker, USA Today, 21 May 2025
Developing standardized yet flexible protocols for these qualitative assessments is an ongoing research area, demanding collaboration between computer scientists, psychologists, ethicists, linguists, and human-computer interaction experts.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
Sonia eventually earned a Ph.D. and is now a computational linguist for a major tech company.
—Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2025
Some linguists and other scientists have been quick to point out that chimpanzee communication is far less flexible and complicated than human language.
—Jon Hamilton, NPR, 12 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for linguist
Noun
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In March 1886, Chekhov received a letter from Dmitry Grigorovich, an elder novelist, out of the blue.—
Ha Jin
July 28,
Literary Hub,
28 July 2025
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In those same intoxicated days, Amos Oz—a young novelist who was raised in Jerusalem under British rule and served in a tank unit during the Six-Day War—emerged from the fighting wary of expansionism and the abuse of power.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
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One of the most effective ways to help build brands and marketing success is to be an effective storyteller.—
Edward Segal,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
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Different baskets, regalia, or stories can be the time machine, the storage container, the religious fulcrum, the food carrier, the knowledge bearer, or the storyteller.—
Lisa Deaderick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 July 2025
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Here the great essayist puts her sharp eye to engaging some of the contradictions in Gerwig’s spin on a classic.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
24 July 2025
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Like the essayists in Life and The New York Times, the candidate recognized that the country needed more than policy prescriptions.—
Time,
Time,
23 July 2025
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George Santos to report to prison George Santos, the fabulist former New York Republican lawmaker, is set to report to prison Friday — and he’s had a lot to say about it.—
Zach Schonfeld,
The Hill,
23 July 2025
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Many of the hustlers and fabulists who populate Crews’s fiction are typical American strivers.—
Charlie Lee,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
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“Linguist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/linguist. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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