language
Example Sentences
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Our instincts—to dominate, to reproduce, to seek shelter—are not distinct from those that do not have the luxury of language to communicate them.
Yet the musicians whose work is covered here use the same techniques as poets and even tip their hats to the poets who shaped their use of language before they called themselves songwriters.
Habsburg universalism rested on the Catholic Church, the symbolic order of the Holy Roman Empire and the use of Latin as the “neutral language of administration.”
And asks listeners to send in words they would like banished from the English language?
From Salon
The cortex is the outer layer of the brain involved in language, memory, and thought.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.