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
  • 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
  • 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 laughter provides cover for the deeper idea that their struggle is not just linguistic.
    New York Times, 22 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • But Cook’s announcement was a departure in a linguistic sense, too.
    Scott Nover, Quartz, 5 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Tolkien’s linguistic notes from 1936 show the eureka moment.
    John Garth, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Around the world, researchers are fighting a losing battle to save the world’s linguistic diversity.
    Simeon Tegel, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
  • Marlin brings the medical knowledge and Noori the linguistic and cultural savoir-faire.
    Alexander Thompson, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Jan. 2023
  • But the crossing of last week's linguistic frontier is an interesting case.
    Ted Anthony, ajc, 16 Mar. 2023
  • But the crossing of last week’s linguistic frontier is an interesting case.
    Ted Anthony, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Just as words in a sentence are anticipated based on linguistic rules, AI predicts future steps using the wealth of data stored in the cloud.
    Emil Sayegh, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • In particular, much has been made of this book’s linguistic relationship to the cut-up methods of William S. Burroughs.
    Danielle Dutton, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Negation remains an issue today and is one of the rare linguistic skills to not improve as the models increase in size and complexity.
    Abeba Birhane deborah Raji, WIRED, 9 Dec. 2022
  • There may be a movement afoot to restore linguistic sanity.
    Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2023
  • The statues also offer a great deal of cultural and linguistic insight: on them, there are inscriptions in both Etruscan and Latin.
    Irene Dominioni, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Aside from the charts, graphs and linguistic flare that each person brought, there was really no discernible difference to the actual panel.
    Sarah Gill, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Kivett is the owner of Evolution Room and a neuro-linguistic programming master coach and trainer.
    Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2022
  • The Basques are a people group in northern Spain and nearby areas of France with a distinct cultural and linguistic history, according to Britannica.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 17 June 2024

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