verbal

With verbal chops like those, who needs an articulate press secretary?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

This seemingly bizarre choice soon comes to feel entirely natural, invoking associations with Ireland as a place of verbal, theatrical and musical creativity under duress from another power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Then we tumble into the realm of inspirational gurus and thought leaders, where breathwork and manifesting meet motivational speak, popping with familiar verbal kernels like “sparking joy” and “habit formation.”

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

It said that one of the pilots warned the other pilot multiple times about "the aircraft's excessive speed" but noted "there was not a consistent verbal response", even as an altitude alarm sounded.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

There were several experienced verbal stunt pilots in the Glass family, but this last little remark perhaps Zooey alone was coordinated well enough to bring in safely over a telephone.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

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

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

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

Is there any difference in the proportion of verbs and verbals?

From English: Composition and Literature by W. F. (William Franklin) Webster