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astericize

To banish a sentence from the realm of correctness or grammaticality by putting an asterisk next to it in a linguistics paper.
Huddleston and Pullum astericize sentences like "The townspeople wanted to donate us a prime rib dinner."
by __alphabet__ April 14, 2023
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