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Decades before plastic became the default currency at the cash register and Venmo became a verb, pulling out a paper checkbook to pay for weekly groceries was a standard routine in American life.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026

The term “86” is well known as a verb; wait staff in restaurants have long “86’d” orders when patrons have changed their minds.

From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2026

And hey, did you know that the word “raptor”—which is often used to describe birds of prey—comes from the Latin verb rapio, which means to plunder, rob, ravish, or abduct?

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2026

His chance at an Olympic medal came down to a much trickier challenge: remembering to put the verb at the end of a sentence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026

When the main action in a sentence takes place in the present or in a future tense, the verb that follows after is in the simple present: I start dinner after the guests arrive.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

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

According to the researchers, using mental verbs to describe AI can create a false impression.

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

Our teacher, Ms. Rank, was standing at the front of the class, slowly conjugating Latin verbs.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline