adjective
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The adjective “additional” is certain to be gone.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 14, 2026
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
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
But Bacon then complicates matters by using the adjective experimentalis to cover all knowledge grounded in experience; and he has no verb for ‘to experiment’ other than experiri.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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