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 syntactical wormhole lurking in this 210-character post—and notice its simplistic kicker, our old friend, too!—could swallow hundreds of tons of American military equipment.

From Slate • Nov. 9, 2017

By reading the material aloud, Horgan and her writing partners are trying to make the lines sound as much like spoken English as possible; “Catastrophe” scripts are littered with syntactical detritus like “you know.”

From The New Yorker • Apr. 25, 2016

One says it, he writes, only to hear it said right back in the exact same form, with “no syntactical subterfuge, no variation”.

From The Guardian • Feb. 13, 2016

Is the syntactical parsing of a noun to be precisely the same as the etymological?

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold