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- noun Plural form of
verbalist .
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Examples
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She might have broken America in the late-80s but she's not an inspiration to the new breed of inner-city verbalists.
Forget Dizzee and Tinchy – female MCs are back on a street corner near you Chantelle Fiddy 2010
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Formerly a member of Slum Village, eLZhi represents a peer group of hardcore Detroit verbalists like Royce da 5'9, Proof and Guilty Simpson. eLZhi joins a squad of D.C.'s best underground talent at Liv's Cake & Kisses hip-hop showcase.
Nightlife Agenda: Holiday parties, EPMD and '90s dance grooves Fritz Hahn 2010
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People who score higher on the SAT Math subsection than on the SAT Verbal tend to be more "tough-minded," while verbalists tend to be more "tender-minded."
Intelligence and Economic Beliefs, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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What to the ostentatious smuggling verbalists are the thoughts of thinkers but Loose-Fish?
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At critical times we were left to our own devices; the verbalists had nothing to offer.
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Our life problems have always been “solved” by verbalists and rhetorical metaphysicians who cleverly played with vague words and who always ignored the supremely important matter of dimensions because they were ignorant of it.
Manhood of Humanity. Alfred Korzybski 1914
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But (what will seem astonishing to our critics and verbalists), with all this there increased the power, or perhaps it was but the desire, to express the greatest thoughts -- newer and keener things.
Hills and the Sea Hilaire Belloc 1911
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Let the verbalists reason as they like over the value of the word matter in so far as it implies or recalls a metaphysical conception, or in so far as it is the expression of the last hypothetical substratum of experience.
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What to the ostentatious smuggling verbalists are the thoughts of thinkers but Loose-Fish?
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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What to the ostentatious smuggling verbalists are the thoughts of thinkers but
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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