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Recent Examples of linguist
Named after an important 15th Century poet, author, linguist and statesman, the Alisher Navoi International Scientific Research Centre will be defined by large swooping arches and expansive glazing.
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Adam Williams, New Atlas, 18 Oct. 2024
So Scientific American reached out to a linguist for a professional analysis of the recent presidential and vice presidential debates.
—Kelso Harper, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2024
This kind of shifting of meaning was called the euphemism cycle by linguist Sharon Henderson Taylor in 1974, and later renamed the euphemism treadmill by psycholinguist Stephen Pinker in 1994.
—Constance Grady, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Only serious linguists and/or pre-diabetics really understand it.
—Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2025
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Adam Williams, New Atlas, 18 Oct. 2024
So Scientific American reached out to a linguist for a professional analysis of the recent presidential and vice presidential debates.
—Kelso Harper, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2024
This kind of shifting of meaning was called the euphemism cycle by linguist Sharon Henderson Taylor in 1974, and later renamed the euphemism treadmill by psycholinguist Stephen Pinker in 1994.
—Constance Grady, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Only serious linguists and/or pre-diabetics really understand it.
—Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for linguist
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The movie, based on the 2016 by the same name, imagines a fictional pope's death and the subsequent election with characters and twists created by novelist Harris.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Apr. 2025
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At the Old Stone House, the three people who showed up to join the venue’s director of education, Maggie Weber, were all female Brooklynites: a political-science student, an attorney turned novelist, and a middle-school teacher.—
Henry Alford,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
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And that’s the vision these storytellers are modeling.—
Stephanie Long,
Essence,
17 Apr. 2025
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Tribeca Studios has partnered with Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Miranda Family Fund to launch Colectivo, a fellowship and filmmaking program created to support the next generation of Latino storytellers.—
Lauren Coates,
Variety,
11 Apr. 2025
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There goes America’s competitive advantage in a warming world, by Robinson Meyer, guest essayist, The New York Times.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
14 Apr. 2025
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She’s been an opinion writer here at The Times (from 2005 to 2016) and a personal essayist of sometimes provocative proclivities for decades.—
Charles Arrowsmith,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Apr. 2025
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The Irishman — long and boring, based on the self-serving memoirs of a fabulist and a creep — was supposed to be the film of the year.—
Bill Wyman,
Vulture,
28 Feb. 2025
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The infamous Long Island fabulist needs revenue from the podcast to pay the $205,000 in forfeiture cash that would be due a month before sentencing, his lawyers wrote in a letter to Federal Court Judge Joanna Seybert.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
8 Jan. 2025
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“Linguist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/linguist. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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