verbs

Example Sentences

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They focused on how frequently mental verbs such as "learns," "means," and "knows" were used alongside terms like AI and ChatGPT.

From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2026

Your life won’t crater because you can’t stop playing the piano, practicing tennis serves, drilling irregular French verbs or reading another page of “Plutarch’s Lives.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

Nouns and verbs occasionally do not match in tense.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2025

Gorsuch argues that Congress used present-tense verbs in one sliver of the ADA, which implies that Congress was only protecting people who were actively seeking or holding a job, not retirees.

From Slate • Jun. 20, 2025

I’m working hard at French, cramming five irregular verbs into my head every day.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank