semantic
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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
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
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
Alas, words can acquire their own semantic momentum through history.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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