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verbal

adjective as in spoken

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Once robots can be set to work with a quick demo and some verbal commands, the country that can muster the most robots—rather than the most workers—wins.

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Several small studies have studied the drug’s impact on children with autism and found improvements in verbal and social skills.

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He’s closer to the verbal creature in Shelley’s novel than the moaning depictions on-screen.

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For Mark, it’s the off-duty verbal combat with Dawn that really hurts.

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A multitude of fussy apps and the need to memorize countless verbal commands were a big part of the problem.

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