lexicographer

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“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

For example, Run-DMC used it in its1986 song, “My Adidas,” said Grant Barrett, a linguist, lexicographer and co-host of “A Way with Words.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2022

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

Bernard Cerquiglini, a lexicographer at Larousse, told the newspaper Le Figaro that “pronouns have not changed since the fourth century.”

From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2021

But no lexicographer could carry out Macdonald’s mandate.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker