semantics
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Stew, who received a refund, said he wasn't sure regulation was the answer, but he was sympathetic to the idea that the debate seemed to be stumbling around semantics.
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026
Traders who lost money were upset by the emphasis on the semantics of the rules.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 2, 2026
Dr. David Wolk, a neurologist and director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Disease Research Center, says the debate comes down to semantics: having a disease versus being at risk of it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026
But the distinction feels like a retreat into semantics — or what Orwell might refer to as “doublespeak.”
From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025
For a long time I got a headache reading papers in semantics that analyzed the two meanings of some.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing semantics
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