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I can imagine Ms. Cash channeling the youngest Flynn sister for this silly lexical gag, which exists only to test whether readers will comment on it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
It said the word -- chosen through a combination of public voting, sentiment and analysis of OUP's "lexical data" -- had "captured our emotions" this year.
From Barron's ● Dec. 1, 2025
That fastidiousness has not stopped the lexical war over his work in recent months, as judges across the country read opposite meanings into “rebellion.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025
She found that high-scoring essays shared features related more to the ability to express complex meaning, such as lexical diversity, noun modification, and soundness and number of arguments, than to structural complexity.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2024
For all its length and lexical exuberance, the sentence is easy to follow, because the reader never has to keep a phrase suspended in memory for long while new words pour in.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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