syntactical

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Data that are not shared in this manner—say, the exact position of eyes or syntactical rules that make up a well-formulated sentence—can influence behavior, but nonconsciously.

From Scientific American • Sep. 8, 2023

Oliver Wendell Holmes, who characterized Theodore Roosevelt’s Bull Moose movement as one of “strenuous vagueness,” survived Antietam but might have expired straining to decipher Tuesday’s cascade of falsehoods, rudeness and syntactical tangles.

From Washington Post • Sep. 30, 2020

We’re talking the simple linguistic point, whereby you can take a sentence and by the addition of a “no” or a “not” at the appropriate syntactical juncture, transform its meaning into its opposite.

From The Guardian • Jul. 18, 2018

Nguyen’s narrative style—restrained, spare, avoiding metaphor or the syntactical virtuosity on display in every paragraph of “The Sympathizer”—is well suited for portraying tentative states.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 5, 2017

And learners were not only dissuaded, but strictly forbidden to go beyond the limits set them in the etymological and syntactical rules of the authors to whom they were referred.

From Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. by Balch, William Stevens