phrasal
Americanadjective
adjective
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Origin of phrasal
Example Sentences
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Repetition has an indelible place in Black expressive culture: in the syncopated rhythms of jazz, the phrasal repetitions of the blues and the guttural moans of soul made meaningful by dint of remarkable vocal performances.
From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2021
The phrasal verb steadily shines as a dismissal, a damnation, and a barked call to attention—an essential caustic shade in the brilliant blue streaks of the dialogue.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 14, 2019
Kafka’s work includes plenty of the hurdles to machine reading recently cataloged by a group of Indian computer scientists, including “complex phrasal structures” and the fact that words can have different meanings in different contexts.
From Slate • Apr. 19, 2018
If anything, its fractured lines and phrasal salad are a sign that something’s suspiciously wrong and the message should be discarded.
From Scientific American • Jun. 19, 2013
Of this a few verbal and phrasal instances will suffice.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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