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
• Altenfelder proudly told me that the idea for the project came from the linguistic team at Motorola.
  — Carolina Milanesi, Forbes, 27 May 2021
• 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
• Butler is arguably the first to explore the linguistic role of gender.
  — Teddy McDarrah, Forbes, 22 June 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The former’s linguistic roots place it on the list despite the school’s Mission District location.
  — John King, SFChronicle.com, 16 Oct. 2020
• 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
• The linguistic divide went right through the two-bedroom Cherkasy apartment where Mr. Nabozhniak grew up.
  — Mansur Mirovalev, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2021
• Tajikistan, the poorest country in Central Asia, shares many linguistic and ethnic ties with Afghanistan.
  — Washington Post, 5 July 2021
• But Cook’s announcement was a departure in a linguistic sense, too.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 5 June 2023
• His athletic and linguistic gifts would have transformed him into a household name in this era.
  — Nathan Fenno, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2021
• 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
• Belarus was a member of the former Soviet Union, and the two countries are still bound by linguistic, cultural and trade ties.
  — Benjamin Katz, WSJ, 24 May 2021
• 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
• The place where the linguistic mapping is a little rockier is with operations and verbs.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Sep. 2024
• In the videos below, Holliday identifies the interesting linguistic patterns of all the candidates.
  — Kelso Harper, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024