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verbal

adjective as in spoken

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While McIlroy was subjected to verbal abuse, his wife Erica was hit by a drink thrown by an American fan on the 17th tee.

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Europe's victory came amid torrents of verbal abuse from a New York crowd which was heavily criticised for its behaviour.

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Kalu is a learning disabled artist with limited verbal communication, and has been a resident artist with Action Space, which supports artists with learning disabilities, for more than 25 years.

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In 1938, Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger used it to describe child patients at his Vienna clinic who were verbal, often fluently so, with unusual social behaviors and at-times obsessive focus on very specific subjects.

One, from 2016, studied 48 autistic children in the US and found improvements in verbal communication compared with a placebo.

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