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

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025

People deemed to have severely deficient autobiographical memory, or SDAM, find their episodic memories transformed into semantic ones—they know they had an experience, but are unable to replay it.

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