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[kon-juh-gay-shuhn] / ˌkɒn dʒəˈgeɪ ʃən /


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The repeated appearance and disappearance of sperm conjugation is one of the study's most notable findings.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026

The researchers suggest that SAM may have helped sperm conjugation emerge, possibly beginning as a mechanism for packaging or protecting sperm.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026

Even the mystery she’s trying to unravel depends on correctly parsing the meaning of syntax and conjugation.

From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2026

The awkwardness of screwing up in front of strangers, butchering their language and sweating while you raid the mind’s dusty corners for a verb conjugation, is not to be found here.

From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2023

I had learned eighty-five Vietnamese phrases over the last seven days, as well as a great deal of verb conjugation.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

"If anyone asks if I can say something in Spanish, I just bosh out some verb conjugations," Raducanu joked.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2025

But Spanish speakers from four centuries ago might have recognized the unusual verb conjugations — if not the unorthodox pronunciations and words drawn from English and languages indigenous to North America.

From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2023

Mandarin might not have gender or case endings, but there’s more to grammar than conjugations.

From Slate ● Mar. 17, 2020

Flanagan’s prose becomes languidly reliant on the verb “feel” and all its conjugations.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 2018

That evening, I was working on Shona verb conjugations when my father arrived with news.

From "I Will Always Write Back" by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda




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