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Recent Examples of morpheme
Important, too, was the morpheme a-, which referred to the mouth and, more broadly, to origins.
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Anvita Abbi, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
Those words are made up of morphemes, small elements that change their meaning depending on how they are combined.
—Ian Austen, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2023
In a multistage process of evolution, words describing diverse body parts had changed into morphemes referring to different zones and fused with content words to yield meaning.
—Anvita Abbi, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
The slips of paper contained the morphemes, which are the building blocks for the entire language.
—Ian Austen, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2023
Each of the, say, two hundred and fifty passengers on each flight hanging unwittingly on each morpheme.
—Gregory Pardlo, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2017
Anvita Abbi, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
Those words are made up of morphemes, small elements that change their meaning depending on how they are combined.
—Ian Austen, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2023
In a multistage process of evolution, words describing diverse body parts had changed into morphemes referring to different zones and fused with content words to yield meaning.
—Anvita Abbi, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
The slips of paper contained the morphemes, which are the building blocks for the entire language.
—Ian Austen, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2023
Each of the, say, two hundred and fifty passengers on each flight hanging unwittingly on each morpheme.
—Gregory Pardlo, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for morpheme
Noun
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And so, while the two talked at and around Andy Warhol and to each other, Warhol sat with his tiny dachshund, Archie Bunker, in his lap and snapped the reporters’ pictures with his new Polaroid camera, answering direct questions with shrugs or vague monosyllables.Stephen Birmingham, Town & Country, 10 Aug. 2023
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Hearing this jab of monosyllables is like being poked in the eye.Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2023
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That may sound like a lot, but the longest running contest was… 1856: Nathaniel Prentice Banks of Massachusetts had served just one term in Congress.Lauren Peller, ABC News, 3 Jan. 2025
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And in the House, with a likely 219-215 party breakdown, Republicans will also have little room for error — especially during the beginning of Trump's term, when three seats will be vacated by lawmakers leaving to serve in the executive branch.Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2025
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But the expression, more than anything Alice said, made Andrea feel that her mother didn’t think her emotions were real.Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
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To build on the holiday theme, this ethos finds poignant expression in the timeless lesson of It’s a Wonderful Life.Richard Menger MD MPA, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
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“Morpheme.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/morpheme. Accessed 6 Jan. 2025.
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