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

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

The passive voice is just one of the gadgets that the English language makes available to rearrange phrases while preserving their semantic roles.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker