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Over time, a more substantive foil for Mbappé could be Yamal, who plays club soccer for Barcelona and with the Spanish national team, the natural rivals for Real Madrid and France, respectively.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

"Nobody has given a substantive explanation of what 'slowdown' means," said Ed Zitron, CEO of EZ Primary Research.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

American envoys discussed "substantive plans" for next steps to end the Ukraine war during their meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the White House said, before they headed to Kyiv on Sunday.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

Rather than addressing the substantive crisis of military readiness, however, Pentagon officials threw a tantrum.

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 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

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

Thus, whilst O. Irish possesses five cases the Brythonic dialects have only one, and they have further lost the neuter gender and the dual number in substantives.

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

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

In conjunction also with other substantives, it has served as a powerful degree of comparison and denotes a superlative expression of contempt.

From A Cursory History of Swearing by Julian Sharman

In the eighteenth century English translation of Behmen's Works, all the substantives, as was then the frequent custom, are printed with capital letters.

From Dialogues on the Supersensual Life by Jakob Böhme