verbs
Example Sentences
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I wish the show’s wall text and labels weren’t so overloaded with jargon, verbs like navigating, negotiating, interrogating, decentering, decontextualizing, disrupting and destabilizing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
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
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
Like the menu of constructions, the menu of verbs can give a writer several options on where to place a given, new, light, or heavy phrase.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
