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
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Perhaps Rousseau should get credit for not using AI to mask his lack of linguistic fluency.—
Phil Wahba,
Fortune,
30 Mar. 2026 -
Nitsuh Abebe on Pete Hegeth’s linguistic obsession.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
30 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Physically frail, yet in full verbal command, Julian doesn’t talk to Lori so much as at her, pausing only to fire off questions that harden, in midair, into assumptions.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2026
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Roediger allegedly saw the woman speaking with her boyfriend in the front yard on her bedroom security monitor and then went to the front door where a verbal altercation ensued.—
Christine Pelisek,
PEOPLE,
2 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The emerging field calls for more refined methods to determine whether fungal electrical signaling plays a functional, communicative role.—
Samantha Agate,
Kansas City Star,
30 Mar. 2026
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The review calls for more refined methods to uncover whether fungal electrical signaling plays a functional, communicative role.—
Samantha Agate,
Charlotte Observer,
30 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Further complicating the mustelids’ lexical family tree, the Haida ermine, found on islands off the Pacific Northwest coast, was also once considered a subspecies of the common stoat, but is now recognized as its own species.—
Harmeet Kaur,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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Laborious yet lithe lads and lasses have loyally leapt to luminate the lexical labyrinths of logic locking the lucrative lotto, longing to lure the lavish luxury lying latently in local landmarks.—
Jared Kaufman,
Twin Cities,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Vocabular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vocabular. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.
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