Sample Sentences for
linguistic
(editor-reviewed)

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    Shakespeare told us precious little of the man whom he entombed in his linguistic sarcophagus.†  (source)
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    Then Enki must have had some kind of linguistic power that goes beyond our concept of normal.†  (source)
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    Eight hundred years ago the Translators Office was a collection of minor officials who assisted in the interpretation of extra-Radch intelligence, and who smoothed linguistic problems during annexations.†  (source)
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    Using the elemental code above and supplemented with low-resolution images, gradually build up to a full linguistic system.†  (source)
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    Nelson spent part of an afternoon demonstrating to me that fine linguistic difference while we scraped chicken manure from the nest boxes.†  (source)
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    Sophie was surprised she had not spotted the linguistic ties immediately.†  (source)
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    The guards were actually pleasant, barely glancing at their minimal luggage, more curious about their linguistic ability than their possessions.†  (source)
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    He gave linguistic examples, showing that to us the Hindi letters da, da, and dha all sound identical to us because we don't have analogues to them to sensitize us to their differences.†  (source)
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    It has as much to do with the energy released by linguistic fission and fusion, with the buoyancy generated by cadence and tone and rhyme and stanza, as it has to do with the poem's concerns or the poet's truthfulness.†  (source)
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    And I am sure that after you hear the testimony of linguistic experts, Dr. Richard Madden, and the men of the Amistad themselves, you will have no other choice but to conclude that the blacks on board the Amistad are in fact residents and citizens of African nations, and as such are subject to immediate release and guaranteed return to their nation as stated by the Treaty of 1819.†  (source)
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    The much-storied disenchantment with mathematics among Western children starts in the third and fourth grades, and Fuson argues that perhaps a part of that disenchantment is due to the fact that math doesn't seem to make sense; its linguistic structure is clumsy; its basic rules seem arbitrary and complicated.†  (source)
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    Like any group of skilled artisans, the elite of which Sophie was a member (they included such craftsmen as highly accomplished tailors from France or Belgium who were employed in making fine clothes out of the fancy goods snatched on the station ramp from condemned Jews, expert cobblers and workers in high-quality leather, gardeners with green thumbs, technicians and engineers possessing certain specialist capabilities, and a handful like Sophie with combined linguistic and secretarial gifts) were spared extermination for the raw pragmatic reason that their talents came as close to being invaluable as that word had any such meaning in the camp.†  (source)
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    Adding to the complication: the newcomers in Clarkston were not a homogenous linguistic or cultural group of, say, Somalis, whose appearance had transformed some small American towns like Lewiston, Maine, but a sampling of the world's citizens from dozens of countries and ethnic groups.†  (source)
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