emotive
Example Sentences
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In a family that is very “English,” not big on touch and emotive language, this presents potentially insurmountable awkwardness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The AI agents have been trained to act like collaborative hackers and programmers so are merely mimicking the kinds of emotive comments they have seen.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Those are not typical sticking points in trade negotiations, but emotive ones in Canada, particularly in the French-speaking eastern province of Quebec, which has long sought to preserve its distinct identity.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
To Mr. Margouleff, “it was more akin to a wind instrument in that you put your total emotive energy into playing one note, or in our case one event, at a time.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Dark and emotive, they suggested a trace of ex-otic blood in his heritage—Greek, maybe, or Chippewa—and conveyed a vulnerability that made Westerberg want to take the kid under his wing.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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