noun

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Recent Examples of noun Other statements, or parts of them, litter the stages: nouns and verbs and objects, all of which can be re-arranged to change the rules of said stage. Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 6 May 2025 Beginning in 2006, and against conventional wisdom, Li envisioned a dataset of images covering every noun in the English language. IEEE Spectrum, 21 Mar. 2025 Thomas challenged the court's use of artifact nouns in its decision. Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025 Thomas challenged the court's use of artifact nouns in its decision. Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for noun
Recent Examples of Synonyms for noun
substantive
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 9 Jun. 2025.

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