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- adjective linguistics Occurring after a
verb .
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post- + verbal
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Examples
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Not all anger is the same, or is brought about in the same way, and we must try to integrate conceptually our observations of preverbal infants with those of postverbal children, adolescents, and adults.
Handbook of Stress Leo Goldberger 1993
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Plants, especially the psychoactive vines and fungi, had a great deal to teach humanity; in fact, if humanity hoped to evolve rapidly enough to keep philosophically apace with its technological advances, the expeditious and postverbal insights provided by psychotropic vegetation might well be its only salvation.
Skinny Legs and All Robbins, Tom 1990
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