linguist

Example Sentences

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The foreign ministry said the family of linguist and researcher Dennis Coyle had written to the supreme leader of Afghanistan, asking that he be released and pardoned for Eid.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

In 2020, photographer Caitlin O’Hara snapped linguist Rachid Baligh of Scottsdale, Ariz., and Marrakesh, Morocco, with his family, his 2015 Ural cT motorcycle, and his miniature schnauzer, Lola, in the Arizona desert.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025

He was a magician, a linguist who reinvented and built his own emotional vernacular.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

I'm a linguist who studies "word of mouth," or what people tell each other about their experiences.

From Salon • Oct. 8, 2024

Even after deciding to obtain a Ph.D. in physiology, I nearly dropped out of science during my first year of graduate school to become a linguist.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond