- plural of verb.
verbs
Example Sentences
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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
The study also showed that not all uses of mental verbs are equal.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2026
Nouns and verbs occasionally do not match in tense.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2025
Gorsuch argues that Congress used present-tense verbs in one sliver of the ADA, which implies that Congress was only protecting people who were actively seeking or holding a job, not retirees.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2025
When what is the subject of two verbs in the same sentence, make the verbs match in number—both singular or both plural, not one of each.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
