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Adjective
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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 -
That could be useful for conversations where telegraphic, ungrammatical messages would come off as impolite.—
Tom Simonite,
Wired,
18 Oct. 2020
Adjective
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Still, despite the glut of legal graduates, his shift in focus was an unusual move for an ambitious young man in a country where farming is seen as a job for old, uneducated or poor people.—
Carmen Abd Ali,
New York Times,
20 Apr. 2025
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The Catholic Church openly collaborated with the Ustaše, whose support came largely from young men with rural, blue-collar, uneducated backgrounds.—
Larry Luxner,
Sun Sentinel,
5 May 2025
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The civil-rights lawyers working to force reforms on Sheriff Kelly Martinez are worried about lapses in treatment for mentally ill people, a lack of quality medical care and substandard living conditions in the county’s seven different facilities.—
Jeff McDonald,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 June 2025
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Another whistleblower, the late John Barnett, had raised similar concerns about Boeing’s South Carolina plant, alleging that substandard parts were used to expedite production.—
Dan Irvine,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2025
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“Slangy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slangy. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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