semantic
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It looked like a semantic quibble but in these circles, it was a serious accusation, one that drew rebuke even from Elmore’s husband, Ronny Fernandez, a rationalist and self-described “unlicensed philosopher.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
“It’s a little bit semantic sometimes, like I know some people consider Ridgecrest a doublet, and some people don’t,” Lozos said, referring to the 2019 earthquake sequence that shook up L.A. from the Mojave Desert.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
There’s people who want me to be mad because of the semantic drift.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
By combining task based experiments with fMRI data, the team found no measurable difference in brain activity between successful episodic and semantic memory retrieval.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 3, 2026
Well, “possessive” is a semantic category, and the case indicated by the suffix’s and by pronouns like his and my needn’t have anything to do with possession.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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