adjective
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During a one-word response game, Anthony Albanese used the adjective to describe Grace Tame, who was named the 2021 Australian of the Year for her advocacy for child sexual abuse survivors.
From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026
If you gift your daughter the house — leaving aside the debate over using “gift” as an adjective — your daughter would lose her step-up in basis.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 13, 2025
But you walk out underwhelmed, which is not an adjective that generally applies to anything Bruce Springsteen does.
From Salon • Oct. 28, 2025
The words used to characterize the Dodgers’ starting rotation this postseason obscured what could be the most important adjective to describe the group: Indispensable.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2025
Lynceus is an adjective meaning sharp-sighted; Accademia dei Lincei is often translated Academy of the Lynxes, but that would be Accademia delle Linci.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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