semantic

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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

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

By combining task based experiments with fMRI data, the team found no measurable difference in brain activity between successful episodic and semantic memory retrieval.

From Science Daily • Feb. 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