verbal
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The chairman has renounced providing the type of verbal cues his predecessors used to shape investors’ thinking about upcoming rate moves.
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
Unless official written or verbal notification is issued, people generally only discover they are restricted from leaving when applying for documents or attempting to depart.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
At his Sept. 3 arraignment, Lawantara’s attorney Debra White said that, after a verbal altercation escalated, Voskanyan reached for her client’s neck, according to reporting from the California Post.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
I find myself without the wit for verbal sparring.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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That was a great wicket because he was giving us a bit of verbals back.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
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
There was an element of jealousy at how they used to stick it to us, with their verbals and their confidence.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2012
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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