syntactic

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As oxymorons go, it’s the operatic equivalent to Noam Chomsky’s famous syntactic puzzle “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.”

From New York Times • May 16, 2024

He tested ChatGPT and, although the result “was perfectly written, from a syntactic, orthographic point of view,” it lacked poetry.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 12, 2024

We talked about all sorts of things, and he loved it when I enthused about a simile or some syntactic tour de force.

From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2023

“I’m a linguist, so I think everyone’s an egghead like me and wants to look at syntactic constructions,” he says.

From The Verge • Jun. 7, 2022

If you are over sixty or went to private school, you may have noticed that this syntactic machinery differs in certain ways from what you remember from Miss Thistlebottom’s classroom.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker