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Example sentences for: wording
How can you use “wording” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Representatives for the Oakland schools have given answers that sometimes conflict with the wording of the resolution itself on such issues as whether ebonics would or should be a language used in formal instruction (as opposed to something that teachers simply should be given financial incentives to be aware of and conversant in); whether ebonics would itself be taught as a subject; and whether claiming the status of a distinct language for ebonics was, in fact, a ploy to shake loose federal bilingual-education dollars (an outcome immediately ruled out by Richard W. Riley, the secretary of education).
If all this is too complicated to follow, let me summarize: you look up word X and get synonyms, A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. You look up the synonyms for word A, and you get synonyms X, B, C, D, E, F, and G. Even the definition provided for the sub-listings is identical in wording to that of the word originally sought.
But Lewinsky swore she showed him a draft and discussed a wording change with him.
He suggested that the wording be made less tentative: for example, "treatments that work should be made to work in the ED."
Serious dictionaries are likely to let down their hair more often in the examples they choose or construct to illustrate a meaning than in the wording of the definitions themselves.
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