syntactic
adjective
of or relating to syntax.
syntactical
-
a variation of
syntactic.
Example Sentences
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Data that are not shared in this manner—say, the exact position of eyes or syntactical rules that make up a well-formulated sentence—can influence behavior, but nonconsciously.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 8, 2023
Oliver Wendell Holmes, who characterized Theodore Roosevelt’s Bull Moose movement as one of “strenuous vagueness,” survived Antietam but might have expired straining to decipher Tuesday’s cascade of falsehoods, rudeness and syntactical tangles.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2020
Grappling with the horror of this feeling, Gubar speaks of the disease’s “imperialism of the not-me-in-me,” a syntactical knot that encourages those bound up in it to untie themselves.
From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2016
He now concluded that his seemingly senseless, extremely protracted efforts to align his sentences on the right side of Microsoft Word were in fact generating unusual syntactical constructions and strange word choices.
From The New Yorker ● May 3, 2016
For in general any minor syntactical unity, which is included in a more comprehensive syntactical unity conveying a certain meaning, does not possess the power of expressing a separate meaning of its own.
From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 by George Thibaut
