semantic

Example Sentences

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Some pairings reflected real-world knowledge and formed the semantic task, while others were learned during an earlier study phase and served as the episodic task.

From Science Daily • Feb. 3, 2026

A semantic memory can be recalled as though it were episodic and vice versa, in degrees.

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

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