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Rather, it is a participle, derived from the verb “to draw” to describe an ongoing practice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Decades before plastic became the default currency at the cash register and Venmo became a verb, pulling out a paper checkbook to pay for weekly groceries was a standard routine in American life.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026

And hey, did you know that the word “raptor”—which is often used to describe birds of prey—comes from the Latin verb rapio, which means to plunder, rob, ravish, or abduct?

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2026

“The object or the predicate comes first, the verb is in the middle and then the subject comes at the end,” says Watkins.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2025

The verb allot, by the way, means “parcel out.”

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

"I had prepared a lesson on imperative verbs," Piantino, who also works as a teacher with other players and coaches from Brazil and abroad, recalled.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

I wish the show’s wall text and labels weren’t so overloaded with jargon, verbs like navigating, negotiating, interrogating, decentering, decontextualizing, disrupting and destabilizing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026

"But at the same time, when we apply mental verbs to machines, there's also a risk of blurring the line between what humans and AI can do."

From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2026

Nouns and verbs occasionally do not match in tense.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2025

Mrs. Granger jammed the whole day’s work into the last eight minutes, a blur of verbs and nouns and prepositions, and yes, there was another homework assignment.

From "Frindle" by Andrew Clements