verbal
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I know you said you gave him a verbal warning over Slack, but you need to offer more tailored guidance that puts your personal feelings aside.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
It revealed that Personalis had entertained multiple suitors, including a verbal proposal of $17 a share, before agreeing to the Tempus deal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
"Is there confirmed written or verbal evidence... to accuse him?" he asked the court, arguing that prosecutors had failed to produce proof that security officers had received orders from his client.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
A 437-page report written by a panel of three judges in 2021 found that the state had shirked its duty to protect Caruana Galizia and subjected her to personal attacks and verbal abuse from politicians.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
It’s more like a telegram, a verbal semaphore.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
Mr O'Neill said his comments in a police interview "I threw a few verbals" were not threatening and would not encourage others to threaten.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2024
Had Townsend wanted to retaliate in the verbals then he had some heavy ammunition at his disposal.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2022
"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
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
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
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