semantic
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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
But the distinction between task repricing—when technology can take over all or part of a task—and job destruction isn’t semantic, it is economic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026
People deemed to have severely deficient autobiographical memory, or SDAM, find their episodic memories transformed into semantic ones—they know they had an experience, but are unable to replay it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
Meanwhile, characters keep hammering Hank about whether he’s a real killer; the actual definition becomes semantic.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2025
He could not fathom, for the life of him, if Luba Luft’s semantic fog had purpose.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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