The verb choice is horribly apt, since heavily armed soldiers are ubiquitous.
"Accelerate" was an odd verb choice in a description of delays and slow trains.
Occupy Hawaii was one of the first splinter protests to seriously question the movement's verb choice, with some activists arguing that "occupy" is a redundant, or insensitive, word if you consider the land already occupied by a colonizing power.
Instructors can use Appraisal to teach the language of stance and engagement in English through verb choice, modal use, extra-vocalization, subject choice, etc.
Appraisal looks at the fine details of writing, such as verb choice, and thinks about the ideas expressed in a citation.
Experiment 2 then investigates the interpretation of pronouns in a particular context, using transfer of possession verbs, and notes changes in the subject antecedent bias caused by the manipulation of verb choice and aspect.
The more important role this function plays is to avoid usage of inappropriate synonyms, e.g., noun instead of verb, choice of British English or American English term according to terms included in the database.
It's a sufficiently spooky moment that a reader may not readily appreciate how strange and wonderful a verb-choice is "bed-checking," how unexpected and ravagingly sad is "gifts".
And so often now, Ms. Gillibrand stands ready to "evolve" — that decorous political verb of choice — on policy questions.
Still, New York is not the only place adopting the principles behind Thrive, or using it is their ambitious verb of choice.
