verbal

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

That’s an unconvincing verbal shrug that a CBS correspondent called a “spectacular self-own.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

According to the NHS, external, verbal dyspraxia is a speech disorder where the muscles have not been damaged, but the messages from the brain that tell the muscles what to do have been affected.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Her father and mother prepared her for the verbal insults she would endure from other students.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

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

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

Parse the verbs, verbals, and verb phrases in the following sentences:— 1.

From An English Grammar by James Witt Sewell