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He pointed to a previous study from the Hungarian team that found that certain areas in the dogs’ left hemisphere lit up in response to decidedly nonlexical vocalizations by other dogs.

From Slate • Sep. 16, 2016

Gone are the gazetteer, the biographical dictionary, and 100,000 obsolete or nonlexical terms, such as the names of characters in Dickens.

From Time Magazine Archive