lexical

Example Sentences

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It said the word -- chosen through a combination of public voting, sentiment and analysis of OUP's "lexical data" -- had "captured our emotions" this year.

From Barron's

“Social distancing” is a lexical addition to every conversation, but its practice is haphazard.

From The Guardian

The network had no response for The Daily Caller this week when asked about the lexical stretch needed to describe a newborn as a “fetus that was born.”

From Washington Times

“When we were looking through the evidence, it was just clear that issues relating to the climate were running through all the different lexical items we were working with,” she said.

From New York Times

This is strange, since get, as the linguist John McWhorter pointed out in a recent episode of his podcast, is a hugely important part of the lexical scaffolding of English.

From The Guardian