How to Use linguistic in a Sentence

linguistic

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  • Here are five words that tell the story of the genre’s linguistic power.
    — Nia Decaille, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Altenfelder proudly told me that the idea for the project came from the linguistic team at Motorola.
    — Carolina Milanesi, Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • Despite the linguistic cues, Aquarius is an air and not a water sign.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 28 July 2022
  • But her linguistic choices have spurred critique from the far right.
    — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Butler is arguably the first to explore the linguistic role of gender.
    — Teddy McDarrah, Forbes, 22 June 2021
  • The pointillistic eclecticism of @NYT_first_said does tend to highlight the linguistic extremes—the novelties and the gags and the groaners.
    — Max Norman, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2023
  • How the linguistic trick of framing shapes meaning--and can lead to deception.
    — JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
  • But linguistic bias over Russian and Ukrainian can cut both ways.
    — Mansur Mirovalev, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2021
  • One way to gird against this kind of linguistic co-optation is to study a government’s use of words closely.
    — Dan Kopf, Quartz, 16 Dec. 2020
  • But the laughter provides cover for the deeper idea that their struggle is not just linguistic.
    — New York Times, 22 Feb. 2022
  • There are baskets and there are deplorable people, but pairing the two is the oddest of linguistic odd couples.
    — Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2021
  • His contact with these languages, and his rendering of them in English, gave him a chance at linguistic play.
    — Elaine Blair, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Either way, now is the time to indulge in their creative and linguistic interests.
    — Sabrina Rojas Weiss, PEOPLE.com, 21 Oct. 2021
  • While a lot of that has landed in Miami, linguistic and cultural affinities have brought some of it to Spain.
    — Rodrigo Orihuela, Bloomberg.com, 2 June 2023
  • The biggest obstacle for the pilots might be linguistic.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 June 2023
  • Thanks to a stream of appealing food photos and linguistic hot sauce, mouths are watering.
    — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The former’s linguistic roots place it on the list despite the school’s Mission District location.
    — John King, SFChronicle.com, 16 Oct. 2020
  • There’s usually quite a lot of thought behind what might seem at first glance like odd feats of linguistic contortion.
    — Harry Cheadle, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The linguistic divide went right through the two-bedroom Cherkasy apartment where Mr. Nabozhniak grew up.
    — Mansur Mirovalev, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Tajikistan, the poorest country in Central Asia, shares many linguistic and ethnic ties with Afghanistan.
    — Washington Post, 5 July 2021
  • But Cook’s announcement was a departure in a linguistic sense, too.
    — Scott Nover, Quartz, 5 June 2023
  • His athletic and linguistic gifts would have transformed him into a household name in this era.
    — Nathan Fenno, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2021
  • But this kind of linguistic innovation is far from new.
    — Christie Taylor, Popular Science, 13 Mar. 2024
  • In spite of the fact that about 98% of its population speak Portuguese, Brazil has a huge linguistic diversity.
    — Marcelo Cajueiro, Variety, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Belarus was a member of the former Soviet Union, and the two countries are still bound by linguistic, cultural and trade ties.
    — Benjamin Katz, WSJ, 24 May 2021
  • Peasants, workers, the urban poor and ethno-linguistic minorities all bear the brunt of centuries of abuse.
    — Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Professor May points out that linguistic groups are not mentioned in the 1948 convention.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 May 2022
  • English acts, for the most part, as a vital lingua franca, not a linguistic bulldozer.
    — Ross Perlin, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The place where the linguistic mapping is a little rockier is with operations and verbs.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Sep. 2024
  • So there is a series of words or linguistic tropes for every single play, every poem cycle, every sonnet.
    — Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2024

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