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adjective

[aj-ik-tiv] / ˈædʒ ɪk tɪv /


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OpenAI’s filing doesn’t name the ex-employee, although it uses a male possessive adjective to refer to the person.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 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 only adjective I have to describe grief is weird - it's really complex," said Chloe, from Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf.

From BBC ● May 16, 2026

Writers is merely a descriptive adjective: it tells you what kind of workshop this is—one for writers.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

Distinct patterns of neural activity contained information about different categories of words, including nouns, verbs, and adjectives.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

In this case, the adjectives are more than breathless.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

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

“There’s not enough adjectives, superlatives—whatever you want to say,” Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025

Each voice has a unique tone color that is described using adjectives or metaphors such as “nasally,” “resonant,” “vibrant,” “strident,” “high,” “low,” “breathy,” “piercing,” “ringing,” “rounded,” “warm,” “mellow,” “dark,” “bright,” “heavy,” “light,” “vibrato.”

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin


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