lexicographer
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“I haven’t seen a game for the last 46 years,” the lexicographer said, though he makes a biannual exception for the second halves of the Super Bowl and college football’s national championship game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025
“The further back in history, the less we can find Black people having agency over how we’re written about,” said Bianca Jenkins, a lexicographer working on the project.
From Seattle Times ● May 27, 2023
She joined mathematician Rachel Riley and lexicographer Susie Dent in an all female line-up on the daytime show, with her first instalment broadcast on 28 June.
From BBC ● May 2, 2022
There was also a violinist, an English banker and a lexicographer with a thing for kilts and vintage cocktails.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2022
“Difficult do you call it, Sir?” the lexicographer Samuel Johnson once said after hearing a violinist perform.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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