verbal
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A verbal altercation broke out in court between relatives and friends of Nowak and Digwa as he was sent down from the dock.
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
Chinese forces took measures such as verbal warnings and "electronic jamming" to force the vessel away, it added.
From Barron's • May 28, 2026
Albert Manifold was removed as BP chairman with immediate effect due to whistleblower reports of verbal abuse and mishandling information.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
Her arrival shifted the “center of verbal energy” to the liberal side, Feldman wrote.
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026
Together with verbal coffins like model and level in which writers entomb their actors and actions, the English language provides them with a dangerous weapon called nominalization: making something into a noun.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing verbal
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