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Pakistan reported significant progress but mediators said the talks produced no substantive breakthrough and failed to persuade Tehran to restart negotiations with Washington.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Ms. Southon, a historian of Rome educated at the University of Birmingham, would justify this decision as a substantive strategy and not merely stylistic flair.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

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

They merely wanted the city to take some small but substantive steps toward resolving these long-standing issues.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

Our vowel terminations amount but to one-fourth of the language; all substantives closing in hard consonants were to have a final vowel, and the consonant was to be omitted after the vowel.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

Having remarked that it was always employed with these substantives, it naturally struck her that its proper place would be among them.

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

To all verbs, then, from the AngloÐSaxon, to all based on the uncorrupted infinitival stems of Latin verbs of the first conjugation, and to all substantives, whencesoever sprung, we annex Ïable only.¸

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

In process of; in the act of; into; to; Ð used with verbal substantives in Ðing which begin with a consonant.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

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 J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen