verbal

The team altered only the movements around the eyes and eyebrows, leaving verbal content and vocal delivery unchanged.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

“Officials are routinely subjected to highly charged interactions and, at times, verbal abuse from players and coaches,” Green said in the association’s news release.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

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

TOKYO—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 ● Sep. 30, 2026

Since there had never been a republican chief executive, there was no readily available vocabulary to characterize such a creature, except the verbal traditions that had built up around European courts and kings.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

Jones' verbals are quite enjoyable - up to a point.

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2016

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

From The Guardian ● May 22, 2013

Participles are adjectival verbals; that is, they either belong to some substantive by expressing action in connection with it, or they express action, and directly modify a substantive, thus having a descriptive force.

From An English Grammar by James Witt Sewell