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Over time, a more substantive foil for Mbappé could be Yamal, who plays club soccer for Barcelona and with the Spanish national team, the natural rivals for Real Madrid and France, respectively.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

"Nobody has given a substantive explanation of what 'slowdown' means," said Ed Zitron, CEO of EZ Primary Research.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

"But on the substantive stuff, and particularly the stuff that will have any kind of economic implications for us in terms of growth, it's still very, very tricky indeed," he told AFP.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

Rather than addressing the substantive crisis of military readiness, however, Pentagon officials threw a tantrum.

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026

It recommended no substantive changes in housing, employment, or schools.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

In Middle Irish the declensions and conjugations are much simplified and the neuter gender is given up in substantives.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

We also meet with a good many words, particularly substantives, which afterwards became altogether obsolete, and some are applied in a sense different from that in which they were subsequently used.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by John Dunlop

Thus, whilst O. Irish possesses five cases the Brythonic dialects have only one, and they have further lost the neuter gender and the dual number in substantives.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

From whence you may furnish him with more examples of adjectives with substantives; as white bread, brown bread, green grass, soft cheese, hard cheese, black hat, my black hat, &c.

From The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campell A Gentlen, who, tho' Deaf and Dumb, Writes down any Stranger's name at first Sight; by Daniel Defoe

In process of; in the act of; into; to; Ð used with verbal substantives in Ðing which begin with a consonant.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster