adjective
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Kafka was not just a writer, he was an adjective.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Their long, heavy eyelids give them a look of drowsy calm; the adjective most often associated with them is “chill.”
From Slate ● May 27, 2026
“You don’t often see the adjective ‘warm’ attached to a titan of industry, but it applied to him.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
"The only adjective I have to describe grief is weird - it's really complex," said Chloe, from Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
Badly has now become an adjective in its own right, meaning “sorrowful” or “regretful.”
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Distinct patterns of neural activity contained information about different categories of words, including nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
Patterns of neural activity revealed that the brain could distinguish different parts of speech, including nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 29, 2026
It's hard to find the right adjectives to do it justice.
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2025
“There’s not enough adjectives, superlatives—whatever you want to say,” Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025
People who confuse the two may think that the adjectives in these sentences “modify the verb” and hence ought to be replaced by adverbs.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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