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But if Japan were to make substantive changes to how its pension funds invest and repatriate their overseas holdings, the effects would be much more significant and long-lasting.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Tuesday that the two old chums “had a lengthy and substantive conversation that covered a variety of topics, including national security.”

From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2026

Pinkerton has written a letter to the Prime Minister saying the response did not "engage" with the "substantive concerns" he had raised.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

We defined a substantive application on the shadow docket as any filing where the full court was asked to intervene in the traditional appeals process, such as staying a lower court’s order.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026

But Bobby approached with dedication the daunting task of learning many of the substantive ones.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

When he recovered, he could neither write nor pronounce correctly any substantives or personal names either in French or Latin, while adjectives and epithets crowded in his mind.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

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 Suyematsu, Baron Kencho

From whence you may furnish him with more examples of adjectives with substantives; as white bread, brown bread, green grass, soft cheese, hard cheese, black hat, my black hat, &c.

From The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campell A Gentlen, who, tho' Deaf and Dumb, Writes down any Stranger's name at first Sight; by Defoe, Daniel

Verbs and substantives are combined as predicate and object.

From Torrent of Portyngale by Unknown