verbal

There are those about unusual obsessions, like the Ford executive who kept score of colleagues’ verbal flubs, and odd jobs, like the hairy Utah men benefiting from a booming market for Jesus models.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

By 1906, four years after Hoy’s final game, that practice was widespread and by 1908 umpires were required to use visible hand signals alongside verbal calls so players, fielders and fans could understand rulings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

There was also an electronic "too low terrain" callout, another automated verbal warning that the plane was flying too close to the ground without being properly prepared for landing.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

I know you said you gave him a verbal warning over Slack, but you need to offer more tailored guidance that puts your personal feelings aside.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

Scoob watches the verbal punches land and immediately wishes he could pull them all back.

From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone

Whether facing Caribbean bouncers or verbals from his old adversary Merv Hughes, he gave as good as he got.

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 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

He had some help, two stumpings were missed by Matt Prior, who was also involved in some verbals with the left-hander.

From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2013

His many readers could then expect the spread of verbals, as he traced the four-letter noun to the leather, sphere, orange, orb, globe, pill, pigskin, bladder, "thing".

From The Guardian ● Jan. 25, 2013

The last are purely English; and yet they correspond in form with such as come from Latin verbals in abilis.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown