lexicographer

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Ms. Stamper, a former Merriam-Webster lexicographer, traces the story back to I.H.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

“I haven’t seen a game for the last 46 years,” the lexicographer said, though he makes a biannual exception for the second halves of the Super Bowl and college football’s national championship game.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025

“The further back in history, the less we can find Black people having agency over how we’re written about,” said Bianca Jenkins, a lexicographer working on the project.

From Seattle Times • May 27, 2023

In a strange twist, Horowitz once worked at Merriam-Webster, too, as a lexicographer — defining words — after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a philosophy degree.

From New York Times • Sep. 18, 2022

“Difficult do you call it, Sir?” the lexicographer Samuel Johnson once said after hearing a violinist perform.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner