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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
The ban was never imposed, as Zverev avoided being fined for 'disrespectful or aggressive behaviour, or verbal or physical abuse' in the 12 months following the incident.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 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
I don’t mean “wrestle” like two people having an argument—a verbal tangle over tush pushes, instant replay or some other evergreen NFL claptrap.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
He was a very verbal person who could be counted on to give the funniest, most intelligent analysis of any situation.
From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals
Whether facing Caribbean bouncers or verbals from his old adversary Merv Hughes, he gave as good as he got.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025
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
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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