substantive
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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
And afterwards, all sides spoke warmly of having held substantive discussions.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
On Saturday, after Kushner and Witkoff met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a White House official said the men discussed substantive plans for next steps to resolve the conflict.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
He drew a distinction between substantive objections and what he called alarmism.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
It recommended no substantive changes in housing, employment, or schools.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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Verbs and substantives are combined as predicate and object.
From Torrent of Portyngale by Unknown
It is more like the Greek Ge, which is often suffixed to the nominative substantives.
From A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues by Baron Kencho Suyematsu
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
By unity Boole denoted the universe of thinkable objects; literal symbols, such as x, y, z, v, u, &c., were used with the elective meaning attaching to common adjectives and substantives.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various
Robert, when eleven years old, showed a deep interest in the study of grammar and language, and ‘excelled as a critic in substantives, verbs, and participles.’
From The Real Robert Burns by J. L. Hughes
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The Freedom of Information Act (2016)
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