semantic

Example Sentences

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In November, it refocused Chase’s division from “retail” to “lifestyle” — a semantic change that reflects a shifting focus.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026

In the semantic task, they recalled brand details based on prior knowledge.

From Science Daily • Feb. 3, 2026

This is much more than a semantic debate between ETFs about what quality means.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025

A semantic memory can be recalled as though it were episodic and vice versa, in degrees.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger