syntactic

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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

There is a deep hunger that Sondheim satisfies, for intelligence and syntactic rigor in a form that in lesser hands comes across as pat and lazy.

From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2022

“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

The basic idea with the parallel construction, which of course is a syntactic cliche, had occurred to me long before.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2022

It’s a syntactic version of the curse of knowledge.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker