syntactic

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He tested ChatGPT and, although the result “was perfectly written, from a syntactic, orthographic point of view,” it lacked poetry.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 12, 2024

We talked about all sorts of things, and he loved it when I enthused about a simile or some syntactic tour de force.

From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2023

And they agree that complex, conditional, coherent, syntactic, if-this-then-that language, with a plan B and a plan C, would have required a big brain.

From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2022

“I’m a linguist, so I think everyone’s an egghead like me and wants to look at syntactic constructions,” he says.

From The Verge • Jun. 7, 2022

In syntactic ambiguity, there may be no single word that is ambiguous, but the words can be interconnected into more than one tree.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker