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verbal

[vur-buhl] / ˈvɜr bəl /


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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

In interviews, he’ll sneak in a verbal jab at Roy, then finish the insult with a wry smirk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

My family hurled more complaints across the table like we were playing a really angry game of verbal dodgeball.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya

If that looked good-natured, later verbals between Prasidh Krishna and Joe Root were anything but.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2025

The tag-team verbals between Warne and Berry continued until Slater succumbed to the pressure by holing out at midwicket a few overs later.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2019

"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

There's been verbals on both sides, the kind of trash talk that prize-fighters might be proud of.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2016

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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