lexical

Example Sentences

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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

In the simpler case of lexical ambiguity, an individual word has two meanings, as in the headlines Safety Experts Say School Bus Passengers Should Be Belted and New Vaccine May Contain Rabies.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker