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verbal

[vur-buhl] / ˈvɜr bəl /


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With verbal chops like those, who needs an articulate press secretary?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

But activists said that this reliance on verbal testimony meant the police failed to recognise residents with greater communication difficulties as victims.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

Japan didn’t step into foreign-exchange markets in the past month, as repeated verbal warnings and historic intervention during the summer helped the yen regain some strength.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Then we tumble into the realm of inspirational gurus and thought leaders, where breathwork and manifesting meet motivational speak, popping with familiar verbal kernels like “sparking joy” and “habit formation.”

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

Her entrances into rooms were usually verbal as well as physical.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

If that looked good-natured, later verbals between Prasidh Krishna and Joe Root were anything but.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2025

"He addresses me and Tweets me quite often and I was just in the frame of mind where I thought me and Klitschko don't have much verbals, so let me respond to Fury."

From Reuters ● Apr. 20, 2017

An unrepentant Mottram retorted: "I won't apologise because I haven't done anything wrong. David is sensitive because he knows I am speaking the truth. He started the verbals, not me."

From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2015

Wagner was also delighted to confirm that would include some verbals.

From The Guardian ● May 22, 2013

In the verb Mr. Gatschet recognizes ten general forms, a part of which he designates as verbals, as follows:   1.

From First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1879-1880, Government Printing Office 1881 by Various


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