lexicographer
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“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
That is according to responses to a tongue-in-cheek tweet from Countdown wordsmith and lexicographer Susie Dent.
From BBC • May 18, 2023
But no lexicographer could carry out Macdonald’s mandate.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
“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
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