semantic
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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
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.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 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
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.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026
I had always considered this a kind of semantic deadfall, but moving about in my own country I am not at all sure that is so.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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