How to Use linguistic in a Sentence

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• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• As a result, the English that influenced Sranan captures a very brief point in linguistic time.
  — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2018
• His contact with these languages, and his rendering of them in English, gave him a chance at linguistic play.
  — Elaine Blair, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2021
• And my linguistic game show, 27 Gnosis, set in a lilac gravitron hidden within a huge mound of mud!
  — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 22 Jan. 2018
• 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
• Yet the opposite linguistic dynamic has been in play for some time.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 12 Aug. 2019
• But some of the messages she was judged and convicted for are definitely lost in linguistic and cultural translation.
  — Seven Graham, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2025
• Rather our linguistic capacity rests on a smorgasbord of physical and cognitive traits, many of them spread throughout the animal kingdom.
  — Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 24 Mar 2025