semantic

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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

This is much more than a semantic debate between ETFs about what quality means.

From The Wall Street Journal

But the distinction feels like a retreat into semantics — or what Orwell might refer to as “doublespeak.”

From Salon

"Ordinary people don't care about the semantics, they want to see punishment, and public opinion is very much against Andrew, the Palace knows that, and the language very much reflect that".

From BBC

They can be short-term or long-term, semantic or episodic.

From The Wall Street Journal