Chomsky

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/ ˈtʃɒm ski /

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noun

(Avram) Noam

[nohm, noh-uhm], /noʊm, ˈnoʊ əm/, born 1928, U.S. linguist, educator, and political activist.

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How to use Chomsky in a sentence

Which I have seen happen in academia, when there have been cults around gurus, like Foucault, Marx, Chomsky, Freud.
Steven Pinker Has His Reasons - Issue 108: Change|Brian Gallagher|November 17, 2021|Nautilus
For anyone whose political sympathies lie left of center, discovering and reading Chomsky is a rite of passage.
Noam Chomsky—Infuriating and Necessary|David Masciotra|September 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The rest of the essays and lectures in The Masters of Mankind show how Chomsky insists on breaking all the rules.
Noam Chomsky—Infuriating and Necessary|David Masciotra|September 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Regardless of how one wrestles with Noam Chomsky, one does always wrestle, leaving the bout much smarter and stronger.
Noam Chomsky—Infuriating and Necessary|David Masciotra|September 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The closing lecture also presents questions that Chomsky never answers—mainly one of alternatives.
Noam Chomsky—Infuriating and Necessary|David Masciotra|September 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
When was the first time you heard about Chomsky, and what did you hear?
What Is Michel Gondry Doing With Noam Chomsky?|Jimmy So|November 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST

British Dictionary definitions for Chomsky

Chomsky

/ (ˈtʃɒmskɪ) /

noun

(Avram) Noam (ˈnəʊəm). born 1928, US linguist and political critic. His theory of language structure, transformational generative grammar, superseded the behaviourist view of Leonard Bloomfield

Derived forms of Chomsky

Chomskyan or Chomskyite, noun, adjective

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