language

Example Sentences

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"And one of the things with flowers is not only they speak of the fragility of humans, but also they have no language, everybody understands flowers."

From BBC

If Greenland was to break from its Danish colonizer, it would become, five centuries after Columbus, the only independent nation in the Western Hemisphere whose governing language remained that of its pre-European ancestors.

From The Wall Street Journal

A deal has been done, the threat of tariffs and reality of tub thumping language has gone.

From BBC

Prime Minister Mark Carney, who visited Beijing last week, recently described China as a more predictable trading partner than the U.S., language that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.

From Barron's

Cave art is seen as a key marker of when humans began to think in truly abstract, symbolic ways – the kind of imagination that underpins language, religion and science.

From BBC