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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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In a year dedicated to celebrating her 250th birthday — she was born Dec. 16, 1775 — Austen is acknowledged as one of the greatest novelists in the English language, the author of a half-dozen or so classics, including Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion and Mansfield Park.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
19 July 2025
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More convergences and coincidences: Smith, a novelist to whom success came in his mid-to-late 30s, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 1995.—
Taylor Antrim,
Vogue,
16 July 2025
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One of the most effective ways to help build brands and marketing success is to be an effective storyteller.—
Edward Segal,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
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Different baskets, regalia, or stories can be the time machine, the storage container, the religious fulcrum, the food carrier, the knowledge bearer, or the storyteller.—
Lisa Deaderick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 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 30 Jul. 2025.
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