linguistic

Example Sentences

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It merely looks for linguistic patterns that tend to correlate with AI output.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Sauer therefore engaged in his first bit of linguistic legerdemain, telling the court, “ ‘Allegiance’ is what jurisdiction means.”

From Slate • Apr. 2, 2026

Kurds, while mostly Sunni, share cultural and linguistic affinities with Persians and have historically had less friction with the Iranian state than with fellow Kurds in Iraq and Turkey.

From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026

You’ll encounter a kind of linguistic confetti: cakey, fudgy, moist, dense, rich, gooey, chewy.

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2026

We can use several types of reasoning to try to reconstruct the linguistic map of East Asia as of several thousand years ago.

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