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He does, however, participate in a brutally funny verbal tussle with his character’s nervy wife, played by Parker Posey, as she attracts attention from other CIA operatives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
Researchers evaluated verbal fluency, or the ability to quickly retrieve and produce words, along with working memory, which allows people to temporarily hold and use information.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
He translated the verbal and emotional precision of theater into a cinematic language as distinct as his film titles: The Banshees of Inisherin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 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
Citra cleared her throat, biting back the verbal reaming she wanted to give him, and did her best to remain professional.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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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
An unrepentant Mottram retorted: "I won't apologise because I haven't done anything wrong. David is sensitive because he knows I am speaking the truth. He started the verbals, not me."
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2015
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
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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