semantic
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There’s people who want me to be mad because of the semantic drift.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
But Tehran says Hormuz won’t return to the status quo ante, and it claims it will charge “fees” not tolls, as if that’s more than a semantic difference.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
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
We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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