syntactical

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, who characterized Theodore Roosevelt’s Bull Moose movement as one of “strenuous vagueness,” survived Antietam but might have expired straining to decipher Tuesday’s cascade of falsehoods, rudeness and syntactical tangles.

From Washington Post • Sep. 30, 2020

The book’s sputtering, flinching style, with its syntactical dead ends and missed connections, feels like both an accommodation to the necessity of language and proof of its inadequacy.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 20, 2018

We’re talking the simple linguistic point, whereby you can take a sentence and by the addition of a “no” or a “not” at the appropriate syntactical juncture, transform its meaning into its opposite.

From The Guardian • Jul. 18, 2018

Grappling with the horror of this feeling, Gubar speaks of the disease’s “imperialism of the not-me-in-me,” a syntactical knot that encourages those bound up in it to untie themselves.

From Slate • Jun. 6, 2016

Any similarity happening between unconnected words, is no syntactical concord, though it may rank the terms in the same class etymologically.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold