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
By combining task based experiments with fMRI data, the team found no measurable difference in brain activity between successful episodic and semantic memory retrieval.
From Science Daily • Feb. 3, 2026
They can be short-term or long-term, semantic or episodic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
Meanwhile, characters keep hammering Hank about whether he’s a real killer; the actual definition becomes semantic.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2025
Well, “possessive” is a semantic category, and the case indicated by the suffix’s and by pronouns like his and my needn’t have anything to do with possession.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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