noun
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But the majority explained “the noun ‘election’ must be distinguished from the noun phrase ‘election day’.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
It’s shorthand for “maximize” and is often used alongside a noun or a specific aspect of life that needs improving.
From Salon ● May 7, 2026
Then "grünen" indicates that the noun will be plural and green in color.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 20, 2026
It can also be used as a noun.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2025
Of all the stumbling blocks inherent in learning this language, the greatest for me is the principle that each noun has a corresponding sex that affects both its articles and its adjectives.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
He had both humans and AI large language models complete a standard test for measuring creativity: Think of 10 nouns that differ as widely as possible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
In German, you have different kinds of nouns, female and male, and there are ways to be gender inclusive.
From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2025
Unlike languages such as French and Spanish, Yautja has no grammatical gender, so nouns aren’t assigned gender categories.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2025
"We started with the basics - the alphabet, nouns, verbs, present continuous," she says.
From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2024
As a child I was taught, for example, that the words soap in soap flakes and that in that boy were adjectives, because they modify nouns.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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