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The Spanish noun for them is “desaparecidos,” and English has adapted the word as “the disappeared.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2026
The species name populi is a Latin singular noun in the genitive case meaning "of the people."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 7, 2026
It could literally substitute any noun, including Sulzberger, for Trump.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
But, despite his best efforts not to dwell on the stakes of his work, the noun “rebellion” was never far from his mind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025
When two words are combined to describe a noun, sometimes you use a hyphen between them and sometimes you don’t.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
Patterns of neural activity revealed that the brain could distinguish different parts of speech, including nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 29, 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
“Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday,” he wrote, and philosophy is full of vacationing abstract nouns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 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
The other two are nouns as well as adjectives: epidemic refers to something widespread in a particular community or population, and pandemic to something that has spread to an entire country, continent, or beyond.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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