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lexicographer

[lek-si-kog-ruh-fer] / ˌlɛk sɪˈkɒg rə fər /


NOUN
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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

She appears alongside host Anne Robinson and lexicographer Susie Dent.

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2021

Bernard Cerquiglini, a lexicographer at Larousse, told the newspaper Le Figaro that “pronouns have not changed since the fourth century.”

From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2021

But no lexicographer could carry out Macdonald’s mandate.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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