verbing
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Sadly, it is true, as two golfers observed on the April 29 Free for All page, that our English tongue is frequently yanked and twisted, with some miscreants verbing nouns.
From Washington Post • May 12, 2017
AK Fortis-Evan, Southampton, UK I live and work in France and have convinced my colleagues that verbing is fun.
From BBC • May 24, 2013
An imagistic verbing – "We're going to sunset that project" – that sounds more humane and poetic than "cancel" or "kill".
From The Guardian • Apr. 25, 2013
Another verbing, as in the parodic-sounding but deathly real example reported by Robert Potts: "We need to leverage our synergies."
From The Guardian • Apr. 25, 2013
Level of style won’t help you here: unlike the alternatives set apart by other pseudo-rules in the oral tradition, neither which nor that is more formal than the other. verbing and other neologisms.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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