adjective
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Their long, heavy eyelids give them a look of drowsy calm; the adjective most often associated with them is “chill.”
From Slate ● May 27, 2026
“You don’t often see the adjective ‘warm’ attached to a titan of industry, but it applied to him.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
"The only adjective I have to describe grief is weird - it's really complex," said Chloe, from Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
There are specific times when it’s a genuinely appropriate word to use, one that covers ground no other adjective can.
From Salon ● May 10, 2026
The same distinction, by the way, applies to continual and continuous, the adjective forms. convince/persuade.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
Distinct patterns of neural activity contained information about different categories of words, including nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
Patterns of neural activity revealed that the brain could distinguish different parts of speech, including nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 29, 2026
The goal is to convince online shoppers to spend north of $100 on a scent suggested by a chatbot conversation filled with ethereal adjectives and descriptions of the English countryside.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025
“There’s no more adjectives you can use to describe him.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2025
Apparently, all my adjectives are lost in this haze of wonder I’m floating around in.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
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