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Recent Examples of noun
Thomas challenged the court's use of artifact nouns in its decision.
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Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
As a noun, McCarthyism was a mode of politics rather than an ideology.
—Beverly Gage, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Google’s most famous feature, one that’s become a noun, verb, and an adjective is free.
—John Tamny, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
The low performance was largely driven by the fact that large language models tended to overestimate the degree to which a noun-noun pair qualified as meaningful.
—Rutvik Desai, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2025
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Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
As a noun, McCarthyism was a mode of politics rather than an ideology.
—Beverly Gage, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Google’s most famous feature, one that’s become a noun, verb, and an adjective is free.
—John Tamny, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
The low performance was largely driven by the fact that large language models tended to overestimate the degree to which a noun-noun pair qualified as meaningful.
—Rutvik Desai, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for noun
substantive
Noun
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First Acts: From the symbolic to the substantive, here is a look at what nine new governors elected last year have done in their first weeks in office.—
Maggie Astor,
New York Times,
30 Jan. 2023
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With his substantive, agreeably granular bass, David Grogan gave prophetic warnings real authority.—
Dallas News,
Dallas News,
23 Dec. 2022
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“Noun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noun. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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