semantic
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To evoke the fractured psyche of the characters, Morrison’s narratives are highly disjointed, switching among different points of view and time periods with only the slimmest semantic clues offered for orientation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026
In the semantic task, they recalled brand details based on prior knowledge.
From Science Daily • Feb. 3, 2026
But the distinction between task repricing—when technology can take over all or part of a task—and job destruction isn’t semantic, it is economic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026
Dehn and others have characterized that reading of the code as semantic and divorced from its legal context.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2025
“Past time,” in contrast, is a semantic concept referring to an event that took place before the moment of speaking or writing.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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