Sample Sentences forlinguist (editor-reviewed)
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She is a linguist specializing in Native American languages.linguist = someone who specializes in the study of language
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She is a born linguist--speaking six languages by the time she was fifteen.linguist = a person who is skilled in multiple languages
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A forensic linguist testified that the latest will appears to have been authored by someone else.linguist = someone who specializes in the study of language
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Linguists disagree about the best way to handle a pronoun referring to a single person whose gender is unknown.linguists = specialists in the study of language
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The linguist testified as to the meaning of "event". It would cost the insurance company an additional 3.5 billion dollars if the jury determined that the Twin Towers were brought down by two events instead of one.linguist = a specialist in the study of language
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Aren't there professors like yourself, former writers, historians, linguists …. (source)linguists = specialists in the study of language
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"Not as far as modern-day linguists can tell," the Librarian says.† (source)
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I refused to become a princess but adopted the titles of Court Linguist and Cook's Helper.† (source)
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Perhaps she didn't understand you, woman; you are none of the best linguister; and then Miss Lizzy has been exercising the king's English under a great Lon'on lady, and, for that matter, can talk the language almost as well as myself, or any native-born British subject.† (source)
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These cats do their best, but they're not linguists.† (source)
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I'm no linguist myself, but I know what I call Shopping and Hotel-snappy bits in French and German and Italian.† (source)
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If it were down on the Atlantic, now, where a seafaring man has occasion sometimes to converse with a pilot, or a linguister, in that language, I should not think so much of it,—though we always look with suspicion, even there, at a shipmate who knows too much of the tongue; but up here, on Ontario, I hold it to be a most suspicious circumstance.† (source)
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The island blacks of South Carolina are famous among linguists for their Gullah dialect.† (source)
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He had just been reading the work of the linguist Noam Chomsky.† (source)
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"Look you here, old grey-beard," said Ishmael, seizing the trapper, and whirling him round as if he had been a top; "that I am tired of carrying on a discourse with fingers and thumbs, instead of a tongue, ar' a natural fact; so you'll play linguister and put my words into Indian, without much caring whether they suit the stomach of a Red-skin or not."† (source)
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The linguists in the crowd.† (source)
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