semantic

Example Sentences

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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

In the semantic task, they recalled brand details based on prior knowledge.

From Science Daily • Feb. 3, 2026

This is much more than a semantic debate between ETFs about what quality means.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 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

I was also taught that a “noun” is a word for a person, place, or thing, which confuses a grammatical category with a semantic category.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker