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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

Mediators are using a lull in the fighting to patch together a quick fix to reopen the strait, hoping it paves the way for substantive talks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 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

Still, Pearson had to be more mindful of the concerns of black residents than at the beginning of his career—even if that mindfulness didn't translate into any substantive changes during his tenure.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

And my ponies were none the less fat and in good condition though they were fed on literature, had substantives for oats, adjectives for hay, and adverbs for straw.

From My Private Menagerie from The Works of Theophile Gautier Volume 19 by Théophile Gautier

There is a tendency to make the plural of all substantives except masculine monosyllables end in -an.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

The same occurs in Mexican, and the chief termination of substantives, tli, is almost identical in sound with that in the Maipure.

From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Daniel Garrison Brinton

When Anna knew how to read and understand about forty substantives, I taught her the manual alphabet, and from that moment I could test her knowledge with unfailing exactitude.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur

He has a perfect hatred of pronouns, and for fear of a possible entanglement between 'hims' and 'hers' and 'its,' he will repeat not merely a substantive, but a whole group of substantives.

From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Sir Leslie Stephen