semantic
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To some employees, the executive’s explanation was a semantic shield, a technicality used to protect the Gates brand.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
In the semantic task, they recalled brand details based on prior knowledge.
From Science Daily • Feb. 3, 2026
A semantic memory can be recalled as though it were episodic and vice versa, in degrees.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
Dehn and others have characterized that reading of the code as semantic and divorced from its legal context.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2025
To an extent this is a semantic conversation.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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