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verbs

NOUN

action word

Synonyms

STRONG

deponent gerund infinitive participle

WEAK

verbification

Example Sentences

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The study found that news writers do not frequently pair AI-related terms with mental verbs.

From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2026

Your life won’t crater because you can’t stop playing the piano, practicing tennis serves, drilling irregular French verbs or reading another page of “Plutarch’s Lives.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 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

I can't count anymore by 7s, but I can conjugate irregular Latin verbs, and I do this while she speaks to me.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan