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Recent Examples of linguist
Indeed, those details sometimes contradicted what linguists would predict based on previous research.
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Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2025
The security agency easily identified Winner, a crypto linguist, as the source of the leak.
—Terry Gross, NPR, 11 Sep. 2025
University of Washington linguist Emily Bender studies LLMs and has consistently warned that language models are simply unverified text synthesis machines.
—Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne, a pair of linguists who specialize in online language and gestures respectively, offered an answer.
—Longreads, 1 July 2025
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Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2025
The security agency easily identified Winner, a crypto linguist, as the source of the leak.
—Terry Gross, NPR, 11 Sep. 2025
University of Washington linguist Emily Bender studies LLMs and has consistently warned that language models are simply unverified text synthesis machines.
—Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne, a pair of linguists who specialize in online language and gestures respectively, offered an answer.
—Longreads, 1 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for linguist
Noun
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Take the Bechdel test, coined by cartoonist and graphic novelist Alison Bechdel in a comic strip.—
Madeline Holcombe,
CNN Money,
11 Oct. 2025
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Woodruff served as showrunner and executive produced alongside novelist Steph Cha with Kim and John Cheng for 3AD; Stephen Christy and Ross Richie for Boom!—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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This might compel me to reshape the narrator’s style and tone in hopes of conjuring a more engaging storyteller.—
Vauhini Vara,
The Atlantic,
16 Oct. 2025
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Colleagues saw her as a yenta, a mentor and a storyteller who was always tough and true to herself.—
NPR,
NPR,
16 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Baggot, who will also serve as executive producer, is a novelist, essayist, poet and associate professor at Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
9 Oct. 2025
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Robin Myers is a poet, translator, essayist, and 2023 NEA Translation Fellow.—
Ganesh Marín,
The Dial,
7 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Trouble doubles down with the arrival of Baroness Eloise Bosquet de Wagner Wehrhorn (Ana de Armas), a big-talking fabulist who arrives on the island like a Real Housewife of Floreana, with dreams of building a luxury hotel on the island.—
Adam Graham,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Aug. 2025
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Many people do not know when LLMs are lying to them, which is unsurprising given that the chatbots are very convincing fabulists, serving up slop with unflappable confidence to their unsuspecting audience.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Linguist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/linguist. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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