How to Use linguist in a Sentence

linguist

noun
  • Both your parents were linguists.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
  • An Iraqi man approached Kim, his team chief, a linguist and a source.
    — Carl Prine, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 May 2017
  • Both the film and the story are about a linguist who is trying to make sense of an alien language.
    — Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Details like these aren’t just arcana for linguists to obsess over.
    — Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Then came the backlash, from linguists and experts in sign languages.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2018
  • But the 95-year-old linguist, by all public accounts, is not dead yet.
    — Chad De Guzman, TIME, 10 June 2024
  • Later, as a learning linguist, the 22-year-old made plans to schmooze with the boss.
    — Candace Buckner, courant.com, 4 June 2019
  • Babbel lessons were designed by a team of over 100 expert linguists.
    — Stackcommerce Team (sponsored), PCMAG, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Will CFOs need to become linguists, too?
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 19 May 2026
  • Women and men tend to have different speech patterns, linguists will tell you.
    — Jessica Bennett, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2019
  • As these ways of speaking disappear, some linguists say, so, too, do ways of thinking.
    — Simeon Tegel, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
  • SyFy suddenly needed a linguist who could build a language out of dozens of parts.
    — Annalee Newitz and Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 22 Dec. 2019
  • The young queen was an adept linguist, fluent in both English and German.
    — Chanel Vargas, Town & Country, 4 Jan. 2018
  • These linguists concluded that Corneille must have been the true author of Molière’s plays.
    — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 27 Nov. 2019
  • For many forensic linguists, the case is a test of the legitimacy of their emerging field.
    — Julia Webster Ayuso, The Dial, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Babbel lessons were designed with a human approach by a team of over 100 expert linguists.
    — Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 21 June 2026
  • Painter John Whorf and linguist Benjamin Whorf were his uncles.
    — Mike Barnes, Billboard, 25 Aug. 2017
  • Adam Albright, a linguist at MIT who wasn't involved with the study, says in an email.
    — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 14 Mar. 2019
  • But in my opinion as a German American and a linguist, this one turns out to be nearly true.
    — Kai Von Fintel, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Yet, linguists say, its impetus harks back to a dark time in American history.
    — Moriah Humiston, NBC news, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Some, like liberal linguist George Lakoff, see the tweets as a deliberate way to shape the news and feed his base.
    — Chuck Todd, NBC News, 3 Jan. 2018
  • There is the tongue of the country, and then a distinctive local idiom known to linguists as Browns bemoaning.
    — Sean Gregory/cleveland, Time, 22 Aug. 2019
  • At the forefront of that work is Daria Valentin, a Ladin linguist born and raised in Val Badia.
    — Rebecca Tauber, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
  • To an extent, prior work by linguists is now being broken down and fed to LLMs via new methods.
    — Ross Perlin, The Dial, 14 Nov. 2024
  • But that's nothing new, say linguists and others who study verbal communication.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Just how linguists divide all those languages into different families varies.
    — Martha Barnette august 6, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Some linguists estimate that roughly half of the world’s 7,000 or so languages are on the verge of extinction.
    — Brittany Shoot, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017
  • How to change this One of the rewards of being a linguist is to see the possible applications of the research in the real world.
    — Patricia Friedrich, Quartz at Work, 8 Dec. 2019
  • Winner, who speaks Pashto, Farsi, and Dari, served in Maryland as a linguist.
    — Thomas MacMillan, Cosmopolitan, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Now, she is being recast as a brilliant linguist who survived conquest, enslavement and patriarchy.
    — Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2026

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