substantive
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He said expenses relating to preparations for a substantive hearing would be awarded at the higher "solicitor-client" rate.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Asking tough, substantive questions to those in power is the job of every journalist, and Dana did hers incredibly well today.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
Politburo sessions rarely produce detailed policy guidance, but observers had hoped for substantive clues about Beijing’s economic plans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Christodoulides' spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said the pair held "a substantive and sincere discussion" and expressed hope it would lead to concrete developments by the year's end when Guterres's mandate ends.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
But Bobby approached with dedication the daunting task of learning many of the substantive ones.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
It is more like the Greek Ge, which is often suffixed to the nominative substantives.
From A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues by Baron Kencho Suyematsu
By unity Boole denoted the universe of thinkable objects; literal symbols, such as x, y, z, v, u, &c., were used with the elective meaning attaching to common adjectives and substantives.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various
Robert, when eleven years old, showed a deep interest in the study of grammar and language, and ‘excelled as a critic in substantives, verbs, and participles.’
From The Real Robert Burns by J. L. Hughes
The terminations of the cases and numbers of adjectives are the same as those of substantives, and are treated in the preceding paragraph.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various
We also meet with a good many words, particularly substantives, which afterwards became altogether obsolete, and some are applied in a sense different from that in which they were subsequently used.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by John Dunlop
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