syntactical
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Data that are not shared in this manner—say, the exact position of eyes or syntactical rules that make up a well-formulated sentence—can influence behavior, but nonconsciously.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 8, 2023
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
Nguyen’s narrative style—restrained, spare, avoiding metaphor or the syntactical virtuosity on display in every paragraph of “The Sympathizer”—is well suited for portraying tentative states.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 5, 2017
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
In Latin, vocabularies and inflections and syntactical relations must be mastered before readiness in the use of language is reached.
From The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart by Charles Alexander McMurry
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