as in linguistic
of or relating to words or language the school banned the book for vocabular reasons, as some parents objected to the author's use of profanity

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Adjective
  • Football content creator Will Powell — better known by his social media pseudonym, Bryan’s Gunn — has always been fascinated by the linguistic quirks and tropes of football.
    James McNicholas, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Those metrics included educational-attainment diversity, linguistic diversity, and industry diversity.
    Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • In 2018, police were called when Osment had a public verbal scuffle at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas on Super Bowl Sunday in 2018.
    Charna Flam, People.com, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Back in 2018, Osment was involved in a verbal scuffle at an airport in Las Vegas.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Open, warm, and highly communicative, Chauffe, who performs as hemlock, has made a name for herself around the country by embracing a free-spirited and loose approach to her music and her everyday life.
    Britt Julious, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Image The accusations, however, that the institution’s leaders are neither approachable nor communicative will linger after Mr. Hill’s departure.
    Christopher Maag, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But what obsessed me were the lyrics, which describe tragi-comically bleak scenes of contemporary abjection using language that felt borderline Shakespearean, tied up in elaborate rhyme schemes and tight lexical knots.
    Meaghan Garvey, Pitchfork, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Russian speakers in the experiment proved faster than English speakers at distinguishing shades that corresponded to that lexical distinction.
    Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
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“Vocabular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vocabular. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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