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conjugation

[kon-juh-gay-shuhn] / ˌkɒn dʒəˈgeɪ ʃən /


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Sperm conjugation can be compared to a rowing team moving in a coordinated way.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026

Known as sperm conjugation, this coordinated behavior is changing how scientists view both reproduction and evolution.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026

Even the mystery she’s trying to unravel depends on correctly parsing the meaning of syntax and conjugation.

From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2026

The awkwardness of screwing up in front of strangers, butchering their language and sweating while you raid the mind’s dusty corners for a verb conjugation, is not to be found here.

From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2023

I had learned eighty-five Vietnamese phrases over the last seven days, as well as a great deal of verb conjugation.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

"If anyone asks if I can say something in Spanish, I just bosh out some verb conjugations," Raducanu joked.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2025

Some Native American languages employ a single, albeit very long, word to express an idea that would take English a full-length sentence, while others have complicated noun conjugations not unlike Latin.

From Slate ● May 12, 2020

Verb conjugations and Early Man mysteries, Random equations and changing world histories, Lunch trays with tater tots, limp chicken wings: These were a few of my least favorite things.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2018

They shifted their gaze from their teacher, Zainab Sunji, to the notebooks before them in an attempt to replicate the verb conjugations Sunji had written on the board.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2016

My grandfather, accustomed to the multifarious conjugations of ancient Greek verbs, had found English, for all its incoherence, a relatively simple tongue to master.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides


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