declarative
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The audience seem to know every word - with the whole room reverberating to the declarative, "I don't need a boyfriend", that crops up in the second verse of Nice To Each Other.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026
“Call me Ishmael,” which opens Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick,” is among the most famous first lines in all of literature, but I prefer a different declarative Melville opening: “I am a rather elderly man.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
Even if she just stood out there with a sign and registered her displeasure just once, she needed to be loud, to say a declarative no to what was happening around her.
From Slate • Oct. 22, 2025
He further argued that concept cells were fundamental components, or building blocks, of declarative memory.
From Salon • Mar. 25, 2025
He spoke in declarative statements, I spoke in questions.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Vocabulary lists containing declarative
Language and Grammar - Introductory
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Sentences - Introductory
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