adjective
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"Anything in Wales can be described with the adjective 'Welsh'. Therefore I have a Welsh accent, how mad is that?"
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026
If you gift your daughter the house — leaving aside the debate over using “gift” as an adjective — your daughter would lose her step-up in basis.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 13, 2025
On a recent weekday, the country’s leading legal lexicographer was ensconced among the 4,500 some-odd dictionaries that fill his Dallas home, revising the entry for the adjective “calculated” ahead of Black’s 13th Edition.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025
But you walk out underwhelmed, which is not an adjective that generally applies to anything Bruce Springsteen does.
From Salon • Oct. 28, 2025
Endemic is an adjective meaning “native to” or “prevalent.”
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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Language and Grammar - Introductory
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