adjective
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We can reserve that adjective for the 1986 Challenger explosion, which was witnessed live by millions courtesy of CNN.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
In so much of modern cinema, “fun” has replaced “safe,” a new adjective with a better connotation meant to save middling films from themselves.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
Their long, heavy eyelids give them a look of drowsy calm; the adjective most often associated with them is “chill.”
From Slate ● May 27, 2026
“You don’t often see the adjective ‘warm’ attached to a titan of industry, but it applied to him.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
The rules are pretty straightforward: an adjective is put down, like maybe “awkward,” and everyone has to throw down a noun that best fits.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
Patterns of neural activity revealed that the brain could distinguish different parts of speech, including nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 29, 2026
The goal is to convince online shoppers to spend north of $100 on a scent suggested by a chatbot conversation filled with ethereal adjectives and descriptions of the English countryside.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025
It's hard to find the right adjectives to do it justice.
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2025
It sounds aligned with the adjectives I gave, but I’m unsure what narcotic means in this context.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025
This is because, in each of these cases, the adjectives do their jobs in joyful combination; they are not intended as a list.
From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author
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