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Rather, it is a participle, derived from the verb “to draw” to describe an ongoing practice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Decades before plastic became the default currency at the cash register and Venmo became a verb, pulling out a paper checkbook to pay for weekly groceries was a standard routine in American life.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026

And hey, did you know that the word “raptor”—which is often used to describe birds of prey—comes from the Latin verb rapio, which means to plunder, rob, ravish, or abduct?

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2026

“The object or the predicate comes first, the verb is in the middle and then the subject comes at the end,” says Watkins.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2025

If you haven’t been keeping the tree suspended in memory, the word islands, which is ringing in your mind’s ear just before you type the verb, will contaminate the number you give the verb.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

"I had prepared a lesson on imperative verbs," Piantino, who also works as a teacher with other players and coaches from Brazil and abroad, recalled.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

I wish the show’s wall text and labels weren’t so overloaded with jargon, verbs like navigating, negotiating, interrogating, decentering, decontextualizing, disrupting and destabilizing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026

According to the researchers, using mental verbs to describe AI can create a false impression.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2026

Nouns and verbs occasionally do not match in tense.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2025

They had no way to indicate verbs or adjectives, no way to distinguish subject from object, and only a limited vocabulary.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann