linguist
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The foreign ministry said the family of linguist and researcher Dennis Coyle had written to the supreme leader of Afghanistan, asking that he be released and pardoned for Eid.
From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026
“There’s Communications Hill featuring a tower that’s part of the history of Silicon Valley,” the speech-recognition linguist said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026
He was a magician, a linguist who reinvented and built his own emotional vernacular.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025
"Interestingly, low scoring essays showed the highest level of complexity in finite adverbial dependent clauses," the linguist writes in her paper.
From Science Daily • Jun. 18, 2024
In the first part of the 1986 article, Joseph H. Greenberg, a linguist at Stanford, proclaimed that the profusion of idioms was more apparent than real.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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