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The Headstrong Project As a former cryptologic linguist with the U.S. Air Force attached to the intelligence community, Tahlia Burton dos Santos translated Pashto in real time to identify and subvert threats to military service men and women in Afghanistan.
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Robin Roenker, USA Today, 21 May 2025
Developing standardized yet flexible protocols for these qualitative assessments is an ongoing research area, demanding collaboration between computer scientists, psychologists, ethicists, linguists, and human-computer interaction experts.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
Sonia eventually earned a Ph.D. and is now a computational linguist for a major tech company.
—Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2025
Some linguists and other scientists have been quick to point out that chimpanzee communication is far less flexible and complicated than human language.
—Jon Hamilton, NPR, 12 May 2025
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Robin Roenker, USA Today, 21 May 2025
Developing standardized yet flexible protocols for these qualitative assessments is an ongoing research area, demanding collaboration between computer scientists, psychologists, ethicists, linguists, and human-computer interaction experts.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
Sonia eventually earned a Ph.D. and is now a computational linguist for a major tech company.
—Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2025
Some linguists and other scientists have been quick to point out that chimpanzee communication is far less flexible and complicated than human language.
—Jon Hamilton, NPR, 12 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for linguist
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The headphones allowed Saenz de Viteri to speak to each audience member directly, as a writer speaks to each reader, and alternate points-of-view from omniscient distance one minute to character interiority the next, like a daring novelist.—
Brian Schaefer
July 7,
Literary Hub,
7 July 2025
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That story is about two men, one an up-and-coming-actor and the other a want-to-be novelist, who fall into a deep brotherhood while sleeping with the same woman.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
5 July 2025
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Star Wars books From the days of the High Republic to the Rise of the First Order, storytellers from across the Star Wars galaxy offer behind-the-scenes stories.—
Phillip Molnar,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 July 2025
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Hill, the son of Stephen King, is an enthralling storyteller.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
10 July 2025
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King has a blogger’s punch and an essayist’s analysis—her dexterous writing is intelligent, observant, and very, very funny.—
Literary Hub
July 1,
Literary Hub,
1 July 2025
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Felsenthal is a fiction writer, poet, critic and essayist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Guardian, the Atlantic and other publications.—
Daniel Felsenthal,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2025
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Many of the hustlers and fabulists who populate Crews’s fiction are typical American strivers.—
Charlie Lee,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
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Playing in the space between social realism and fabulist storytelling, Kezilahabi’s novel asks moral questions about parents’ responsibilities and the effects of women’s liberation, sparing no one but withholding final judgment.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025
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“Linguist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/linguist. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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