semantic

Example Sentences

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In November, it refocused Chase’s division from “retail” to “lifestyle” — a semantic change that reflects a shifting focus.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026

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

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

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

The passive voice is just one of the gadgets that the English language makes available to rearrange phrases while preserving their semantic roles.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker