Sentence examples for existing verb from inspiring English sources

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As an example, the pseudohomophone 疑凍 yi2dong4 is composed of two Chinese characters 疑 yi2 'to question' and 凍 dong4 'to freeze', which are homophonic to the characters of an existing verb 移動 yi2dong4 'to move'.

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All new verbs, whether derived from existing verbs or from nouns, belonged to the consonantal type.

I hereby introduce G.L.'s First Rule of Brand-Verbing, which is that people will verb a brand name if it refers to a clearly-defined, frequent action for which there isn't a perfectly adequate pre-existing verb.

Already at latencies below 200 ms, magnetic brain responses were larger to particles appearing in existing phrasal verbs (e.g. rise up) than to particles appearing in non-existing combinations (e.g. ∗fall up), regardless of whether particles carried a literal or metaphorical sense (e.g. rise up, heat up).

Sonderbehandlung (abbr. S.B). is a German noun meaning special treatment in English, also existing as a verb: sonderbehandeln (to treat specially).

I don't think it'll be very exciting, though; the porn companies have likely already registered practically every imaginable permutation of sex-related nouns and verbs under existing TLDs, so they'll have transferred over any good ones during the sunrise period.

One can define obverses for any verb, and even override existing obverses.

Given that we drew from existing evidence of effective messaging interventions (e.g., VERB, ParticipACTION [ 22, 25]), these recommendations represent an accumulation of best practices in the field of physical activity promotion, health communications, and public health intervention.

The verbs belonging to this category indicate existing temporary status of a subject.

The entire class of synsets is grouped into nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs separately, with links existing only within these four major groups but not between them.

There's a new entry that codifies our existing practice on tweet (which is somewhat informal, but acceptable as both a noun and a verb for special effect, or in articles about social media).

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