How to Use linguistic in a Sentence

linguistic

adjective
  • Here are five words that tell the story of the genre’s linguistic power.
    — Wesley Morris Niela Orr Miles Marshall Lewis Jessica Pettway Tom Breihan Danyel Smith, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Here are five words that tell the story of the genre’s linguistic power.
    — Danny Hajjar, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Here are five words that tell the story of the genre’s linguistic power.
    — Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Here are five words that tell the story of the genre’s linguistic power.
    — Nia Decaille, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Here are five words that tell the story of the genre’s linguistic power.
    — Salamishah Tillet, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • But there’s a ton to know about sitz baths beyond cool linguistic trivia.
    — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 14 Mar. 2019
  • But her linguistic choices have spurred critique from the far right.
    — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Apr. 2024
  • This meant that the writing was image-based rather than linguistic.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
  • But that’s not the point of Ijames’ rich linguistic landscape.
    — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 3 Mar. 2018
  • Aavik was part of a wave of linguistic purism that was then sweeping Europe.
    — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
  • From icy dips to linguistic leaps, these lovebirds went above and beyond to pop the question!
    — Ronnie Li, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025
  • And that brings us to our first puzzle, which involves a linguistic whodunit.
    — Quanta Magazine, 17 Apr. 2019
  • Woke, by contrast, would take a far more disturbing linguistic ride.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
  • But a closer read shows the linguistic dance that big companies are engaged in.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 10 July 2025
  • Pull the linguistic thread a little further, and the word pops up as a mark of frustration.
    — L. Carol Ritchie, NPR, 7 Nov. 2025
  • And what if these forces met, in real life, for a bit of undercooked linguistic combat?
    — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Lamar’s is a divine vision, and much of the album is filled with a linguistic searching.
    — Jason Parham, WIRED, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Despite the linguistic cues, Aquarius is an air and not a water sign.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 28 July 2022
  • A couple of votes stand out for me, for linguistic and cultural reasons.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Yet the opposite linguistic dynamic has been in play for some time.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 12 Aug. 2019
  • These types of linguistic metaphors – pervasive in speech – have been a focus of my research.
    — Aradhna Krishna, The Conversation, 6 July 2020
  • How the linguistic trick of framing shapes meaning--and can lead to deception.
    — JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
  • But linguistic bias over Russian and Ukrainian can cut both ways.
    — Mansur Mirovalev, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Butler is arguably the first to explore the linguistic role of gender.
    — Teddy McDarrah, Forbes, 22 June 2021
  • But the laughter provides cover for the deeper idea that their struggle is not just linguistic.
    — New York Times, 22 Feb. 2022
  • One way to gird against this kind of linguistic co-optation is to study a government’s use of words closely.
    — Dan Kopf, Quartz, 16 Dec. 2020
  • There’s usually quite a lot of thought behind what might seem at first glance like odd feats of linguistic contortion.
    — Harry Cheadle, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Thanks to a stream of appealing food photos and linguistic hot sauce, mouths are watering.
    — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Altenfelder proudly told me that the idea for the project came from the linguistic team at Motorola.
    — Carolina Milanesi, Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • His poems are acts of linguistic survival that refuse the false comfort of coherence.
    — Alex Averbuch, Literary Hub, 24 Feb. 2026

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