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
  • The paper 'Notable Representations in Large-Scale Transformers' by Alfred E. Neuman explores how transformer models encode linguistic and semantic patterns across multiple layers.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
  • From icy dips to linguistic leaps, these lovebirds went above and beyond to pop the question!
    Ronnie Li, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • In the hearing, Judge Boasberg grilled the Justice Department lawyer on what happened last weekend when those planes took off and landed in El Salvador despite the judge's verbal order in court from the bench that they be turned around immediately.
    ABC News, ABC News, 23 Mar. 2025
  • This verbal confrontation didn't happen, but the discomfort of her children finding about their granddad was real.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Ornithologist Richard Prum also takes a communicative view of art, but one where art is meant to be evaluated for its beauty.
    Shawn Simpson, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Their steering is communicative, responsive and precise.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The lexical gap, where untranslatable words are found in one language but not others, can be easily filled by simply borrowing these words, OED executive editor Danica Salazar wrote in the update.
    Peter Guo, NBC news, 27 Mar. 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 2 Apr. 2025.

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