semantic
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Rather than relying only on researchers to read and interpret every dream individually, the technology allowed the team to measure the semantic structure of the reports.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 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
Despite frontier AI labs and tech competitors hiring forward-deployed engineers or discussing AI-powered “semantic layers,” Foundry is much more complex than a simple semantic layer over a data lake, the analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 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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