semantic
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She added: "There are things in Wales that are broken. All of this is semantics. Everyone knows there are some things that aren't working very well, but we need to also remain positive."
From BBC
To evoke the fractured psyche of the characters, Morrison’s narratives are highly disjointed, switching among different points of view and time periods with only the slimmest semantic clues offered for orientation.
Dr. David Wolk, a neurologist and director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Disease Research Center, says the debate comes down to semantics: having a disease versus being at risk of it.
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
But the distinction between task repricing—when technology can take over all or part of a task—and job destruction isn’t semantic, it is economic.
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