noun
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It’s shorthand for “maximize” and is often used alongside a noun or a specific aspect of life that needs improving.
From Salon ● May 7, 2026
The Spanish noun for them is “desaparecidos,” and English has adapted the word as “the disappeared.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2026
Then "grünen" indicates that the noun will be plural and green in color.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 20, 2026
It could literally substitute any noun, including Sulzberger, for Trump.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
Add the apostrophe alone to a plural noun that ends in s.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
“Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday,” he wrote, and philosophy is full of vacationing abstract nouns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 2025
Unlike languages such as French and Spanish, Yautja has no grammatical gender, so nouns aren’t assigned gender categories.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2025
The demeanor in the chat of Hegseth, until recently a weekend cable news host, is one of insecurity; here’s a guy who wants to show off how many acronyms and proper nouns he knows.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2025
"We started with the basics - the alphabet, nouns, verbs, present continuous," she says.
From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2024
It’s in the third person, and filled with zombie nouns like Extreme Exposure and passives like are more easily affected.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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