semantic
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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
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
They can be short-term or long-term, semantic or episodic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 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
Examples include the rules that govern punctuation, complex forms of agreement, and fine semantic distinctions between uncommon words like militate and mitigate and credible and credulous.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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"Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan
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