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With verbal chops like those, who needs an articulate press secretary?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
According to the NHS, external, verbal dyspraxia is a speech disorder where the muscles have not been damaged, but the messages from the brain that tell the muscles what to do have been affected.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
“Officials are routinely subjected to highly charged interactions and, at times, verbal abuse from players and coaches,” Green said in the association’s news release.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Then we tumble into the realm of inspirational gurus and thought leaders, where breathwork and manifesting meet motivational speak, popping with familiar verbal kernels like “sparking joy” and “habit formation.”
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
Not after our failed escape attempt, and certainly not after Chubs had rained down a verbal hailstorm on Clancy.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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That was a great wicket because he was giving us a bit of verbals back.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Mr O'Neill said his comments in a police interview "I threw a few verbals" were not threatening and would not encourage others to threaten.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2024
"He addresses me and Tweets me quite often and I was just in the frame of mind where I thought me and Klitschko don't have much verbals, so let me respond to Fury."
From Reuters ● Apr. 20, 2017
His many readers could then expect the spread of verbals, as he traced the four-letter noun to the leather, sphere, orange, orb, globe, pill, pigskin, bladder, "thing".
From The Guardian ● Jan. 25, 2013
In the verb Mr. Gatschet recognizes ten general forms, a part of which he designates as verbals, as follows: 1.
From First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1879-1880, Government Printing Office 1881 by Various
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