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For Xi, the difference between not supporting Taiwan’s independence and explicitly opposing it is more than semantics.

Dehn and others have characterized that reading of the code as semantic and divorced from its legal context.

Meanwhile, characters keep hammering Hank about whether he’s a real killer; the actual definition becomes semantic.

And while the distinctions between an imperial foreign policy and a hegemonic one may seem semantic or academic, they are crucial when looking at the prospects of peace.

Whether or not Israel under Netanyahu practices apartheid or has committed genocide are ideological or semantic questions, largely determined by one’s prior assumptions.