Ben Sasse

The word deepfake has become a generic noun for the use of machine-learning algorithms and facial-mapping technology to digitally manipulate people's voices, bodies and faces. And the technology is increasingly so realistic that the deepfakes are almost impossible to detect.

American Politician

Lawrence Kohlberg

If I can see my own recollections, like many adolescents, I was a Platonic realist. I believed in the reality of ideas, of the big nouns, and believed that one's life was determined by the ideas of the true, the good, and the beautiful which one held.

American Educator

Leonard Susskind

The word 'universe' is obviously not intended to have a plural, but science has evolved in such a way that we need a plural noun for something similar to what we ordinarily call our universe.

American Physicist

Stuart Scott

Writing is better if it's kept simple. Every sentence doesn't need to have perfect noun/verb agreement. I've said 'ain't' on the air. Because I sometimes use 'ain't' when I'm talking.

American Journalist

Fred Rogers

Love isn't a perfect state of caring. It's an active noun, like 'struggle.

American Celebrity

Martha Graham

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.

American Dancer

Lydia Millet

Names and other proper nouns shouldn't distract from the language.

American Novelist

Yoko Ono

I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.

American Artist

Marianne Moore

American Poet

R. Buckminster Fuller

American Inventor

Nouns have types like common, proper, concrete, abstract. Each refers to different kinds of entities.

Noun Varieties

Nouns often follow articles like 'a', 'an', or 'the', which can help you spot them in sentences.

Visual Identification

Nouns can be singular or plural, indicating one or multiple items respectively.

Noun Plurality

The noun acting as a subject tells us who or what does the action in a sentence.

Subject Importance

Nouns can also be objects receiving the action, expanding the story a verb tells.

Objects in Actions

Some nouns are neither the subject nor the direct object but are still involved in the action.

Action Participants

 and I said, hey, this is nice-- they use it halfway, and I said, can I do it all the time? They said yeah. The way I view it is, Yoda is-- This is where adjectives and nouns are switched in places-- I'm not smart enough enough to know what an adjective or a noun is. Yeah, the sentence is fully understandable but clearly

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 That means language can shape how you're thinking about anything that can be named by a noun. That's a lot of stuff. And finally, I gave you an example of how language can shape things that have personal weight to us -- ideas like blame and punishment or eyewitness memory. These are important things in our daily lives.

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 So the difference is, is that rather than linking from page to page, we're actually going to link from one idea on a page to another idea, rather than to the other page. So every idea is basically being supported -- or every item, or every noun -- is being supported by the entire Web.

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 is one of the most common experiences of memory failure. You're trying to come up with a word, most often a proper noun, but you cannot, for the life of you, retrieve it on demand. Why does this happen? Blocking on a word can occur when there's only partial

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 sound is  never  the most important aspect of spelling an English word. A word's meaning and history need to come first. To doubt means to question, to waver, to hesitate. As a noun, it means uncertainty or confusion.

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 Academics love them. So do lawyers, bureaucrats, business writers. I call them zombie nouns, because they consume the living. They cannibalize active verbs, they suck the lifeblood from adjectives,

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 You merely look after it for the next generation. So it's important that we remember, the future, we treat it like a noun. It's not. It's a verb. It requires action. It requires us to push into it.

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 which plants are marked with I and mu prefixes that are followed by a noun a verb or even a phrase that contains the most striking feature of the plant is behavior its physical characteristics

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 to turn nouns into verbs. Well actually I prefer to say that it's an object constructed out of wood and cloth with movement built into it to persuade you to believe that it has life.

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 What is love? Seriously, though, what is it? What is love? A verb? A noun? A universal truth? An ideal?