How to Use linguistic in a Sentence

linguistic

adjective
  • Here are five words that tell the story of the genre’s linguistic power.
    — Nia Decaille, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
  • But that’s not the point of Ijames’ rich linguistic landscape.
    — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 3 Mar. 2018
  • Here are five words that tell the story of the genre’s linguistic power.
    — Danny Hajjar, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Here are five words that tell the story of the genre’s linguistic power.
    — Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Here are five words that tell the story of the genre’s linguistic power.
    — Salamishah Tillet, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Here are five words that tell the story of the genre’s linguistic power.
    — Wesley Morris Niela Orr Miles Marshall Lewis Jessica Pettway Tom Breihan Danyel Smith, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Aavik was part of a wave of linguistic purism that was then sweeping Europe.
    — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Altenfelder proudly told me that the idea for the project came from the linguistic team at Motorola.
    — Carolina Milanesi, Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • It’s gone on quite a linguistic journey over the centuries.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
  • From icy dips to linguistic leaps, these lovebirds went above and beyond to pop the question!
    — Ronnie Li, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Despite the linguistic cues, Aquarius is an air and not a water sign.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 28 July 2022
  • But few leaped to rescue Bee from her linguistic cliff.
    — Stephanie Ebbert, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2018
  • This meant that the writing was image-based rather than linguistic.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Lamar’s is a divine vision, and much of the album is filled with a linguistic searching.
    — Jason Parham, WIRED, 20 Apr. 2018
  • But her linguistic choices have spurred critique from the far right.
    — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Apr. 2024
  • But there’s a ton to know about sitz baths beyond cool linguistic trivia.
    — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 14 Mar. 2019
  • Butler is arguably the first to explore the linguistic role of gender.
    — Teddy McDarrah, Forbes, 22 June 2021
  • The linguistic change was signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
    — Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Which isn't to say having Alexa work in India won't be a linguistic hurdle.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2017
  • And that brings us to our first puzzle, which involves a linguistic whodunit.
    — Quanta Magazine, 17 Apr. 2019
  • 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 the growth within the top 10 linguistic groups is a different story.
    — Dahlia Bazzaz, The Seattle Times, 15 Aug. 2017
  • But linguistic bias over Russian and Ukrainian can cut both ways.
    — Mansur Mirovalev, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2021
  • These types of linguistic metaphors – pervasive in speech – have been a focus of my research.
    — Aradhna Krishna, The Conversation, 6 July 2020
  • 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
  • Not to anyone who has ever sat through a lousy production of the play, perhaps at college, and found the character’s linguistic errors—his trademark—to be about as funny as athlete’s foot.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2025
  • While Google Translate has long facilitated linguistic cross-pollination, a more subtle translation is needed now – one that transcends words and dives into the fabric of thoughts, feelings and aspirations.
    — Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025

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