syntax

When texting Trump, Rutte would echo the president’s own syntax and hyperbole, keeping his messages congratulatory, with staccato sentences.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

"If someone looks closely, they can spot Russian syntax in these videos."

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026

When rendering spoken words in print, it’s standard practice to delete the “uhs” and “ums” and “likes,” remove irrelevant false starts and silently correct the minor errors of grammar and syntax endemic to human speech.

From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2026

I would also hate it if a photo of me “disappeared” my hair or captured me from “underneath angles,” famously the worst angles, and goddammit, Trump has once again gifted us some incredible syntax here.

From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2025

No matter what sound-making device is placed at their disposal, creatures in general do a great deal of gabbling, and it requires long patience and observation to edit out the parts lacking syntax and sense.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

Early on, we are exposed to simple spoken words and syntaxes that are often not represented in writing.

From New York Times ● May 30, 2023

Sun also devised an “application programming interface” consisting of command names and syntaxes that programmers would use to communicate with the tools.

From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2020

Such a wide variety of shapes and syntaxes should feel disruptive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2016

"Yes, he swims around most of the time in a sea of declensions, conjugations, and syntaxes, in Greek, Latin and English."

From A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

"Pray, Mr. Thingumbob, have you brought any grammars, and primers, and dictionaries, and syntaxes with you?"

From Thaddeus of Warsaw by Jane Porter