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declarative

[dih-klar-uh-tiv] / dɪˈklær ə tɪv /






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The audience seem to know every word - with the whole room reverberating to the declarative, "I don't need a boyfriend", that crops up in the second verse of Nice To Each Other.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

“Call me Ishmael,” which opens Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick,” is among the most famous first lines in all of literature, but I prefer a different declarative Melville opening: “I am a rather elderly man.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

He further argued that concept cells were fundamental components, or building blocks, of declarative memory.

From Salon • Mar. 25, 2025

“I was as much interested in why these movies are the way they are as I was in saying anything declarative about whether they’re good or bad or they’re killing cinema,” Brown says.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2024

The instinct passed through me in the form of a word, a bold lyric, strong, declarative.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover




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