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Rosario Forlenza, a professor at Rome's Luiss University, called it a "European generational revolt" rooted in a social and economic crisis "to which politicians cannot give a substantive response".

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

The PCC also criticised the lack of a "substantive" communication from the government about Cleveland Police's long-term funding.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

This was a Hail Mary procedural play in a Hail Mary substantive case.

From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2026

The U.N.’s human-rights agency hasn’t provided a substantive update.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

It was his odd blindness, I think, to all problems of a personal nature which made him able at the end to transmute even Bunny’s highly substantive troubles into spiritual ones.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Daniel Garrison Brinton

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

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 fact, there is a very large group of noun substantives which mark, for an Elementary teacher, at least, the seasons of the year.

From Life's Minor Collisions by Frances Lester Warner

Manx goes as far as northern Scottish in dropping unstressed final vowels, e.g. chiarn, “lord,” Irish, tighearna; -yn is the favourite plural ending in substantives.

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