semantic
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For many years, episodic and semantic memory have been treated as separate systems, leading researchers to investigate them independently.
From Science Daily • Feb. 3, 2026
People deemed to have severely deficient autobiographical memory, or SDAM, find their episodic memories transformed into semantic ones—they know they had an experience, but are unable to replay it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
They can be short-term or long-term, semantic or episodic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
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
And they distinguish both of these from semantic categories and roles like action, physical object, possessor, doer, and done-to, which refer to what the referents of the words are doing in the world.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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