noun
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The Spanish noun for them is “desaparecidos,” and English has adapted the word as “the disappeared.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2026
The species name populi is a Latin singular noun in the genitive case meaning "of the people."
From Science Daily • Feb. 7, 2026
It could literally substitute any noun, including Sulzberger, for Trump.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
Although it is obsolete in this sense, the verb survives in Welsh English in the sense of to scratch, especially with claws or fingernails, along with the noun use, to scratch.
From BBC • Sep. 26, 2025
Indeed, there were several eminent linguists of the opinion that this was how the common noun had originated.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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