as in oral
made or carried on through speaking rather than in writing
the soldier left a nuncupative will that was witnessed by two of his comrades
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Adjective
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The ruling comes ahead of a June 30 oral argument in a related case before the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in Texas, where Judge James Ho, a Trump appointee, previously criticized the Supreme Court for punting the matter back to his court.—
Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
7 June 2025 -
OpenAI plans to challenge the order and is currently pushing for oral arguments, hoping that user testimony will help sway the court to set it aside.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
6 June 2025
Adjective
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These were meetings of twenty-five or so women, each of whom paid the substantial sum of ten dollars to hear Fuller exercise her verbal brilliance in the course of a thirteen-week-long series, in semiprivate settings.—
James Marcus,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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The incident began with a verbal argument, according to Pembroke Pines Police.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
31 May 2025
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“Nuncupative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nuncupative. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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