verbal
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"Neither have we sent a letter nor given verbal instructions to stop it. They postponed it on their own."
From Barron's ● Aug. 8, 2026
“Its whimsical grandiosity practically invites us to use the passive voice, a kind of verbal genuflection.”
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
Until last week’s combined intervention, both Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Japan’s Finance Minister, Satsuki Katayama, had tried to boost the yen merely through verbal encouragement, but that strategy proved unsuccessful.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
The FA approached Guardiola before appointing Tuchel, with reports suggesting there was a verbal agreement, external in place, with Guardiola remaining at Manchester City.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
These include not only all of the genres of music, the verbal languages, and accents, but also the mechanical, digital, human, and animal noises, and all of the ambient sounds around us.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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