verbal
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In interviews, he’ll sneak in a verbal jab at Roy, then finish the insult with a wry smirk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
With verbal chops like those, who needs an articulate press secretary?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
According to the NHS, external, verbal dyspraxia is a speech disorder where the muscles have not been damaged, but the messages from the brain that tell the muscles what to do have been affected.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
The chairman has renounced providing the type of verbal cues his predecessors used to shape investors’ thinking about upcoming rate moves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Warren concluded with a scathing diagnosis of the Adams correspondence with her as a scattered series of verbal impulses and “the most captious, malignant, irrelevant compositions that have ever been seen.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Had Townsend wanted to retaliate in the verbals then he had some heavy ammunition at his disposal.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2022
"He addresses me and Tweets me quite often and I was just in the frame of mind where I thought me and Klitschko don't have much verbals, so let me respond to Fury."
From Reuters ● Apr. 20, 2017
Jones' verbals are quite enjoyable - up to a point.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2016
There was an element of jealousy at how they used to stick it to us, with their verbals and their confidence.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2012
Parse the verbs, verbals, and verb phrases in the following sentences:— 1.
From An English Grammar by James Witt Sewell
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