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conjugation

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


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Sperm conjugation can be compared to a rowing team moving in a coordinated way.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026

Known as sperm conjugation, this coordinated behavior is changing how scientists view both reproduction and evolution.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026

He’d explain I’d gotten the conjugation wrong and I’d quietly Google what that meant.

From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2026

By the time he in third grade, though, he get to talking better than the President a the United States, coming home using words like conjugation and parliamentary.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

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

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2025

Throughout, she plays with various conjugations of the word “say” — “What’d he say?”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2022

Some Native American languages employ a single, albeit very long, word to express an idea that would take English a full-length sentence, while others have complicated noun conjugations not unlike Latin.

From Slate ● May 12, 2020

“He was Velasco, Valasky, Valasca, Valesques,” Ms. Cumming writes, “like the conjugations of an irregular verb.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2016

My grandfather, accustomed to the multifarious conjugations of ancient Greek verbs, had found English, for all its incoherence, a relatively simple tongue to master.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides


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