semantic
Example Sentences
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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
For many years, episodic and semantic memory have been treated as separate systems, leading researchers to investigate them independently.
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
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
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.