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
Some pairings reflected real-world knowledge and formed the semantic task, while others were learned during an earlier study phase and served as the episodic task.
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
Meanwhile, characters keep hammering Hank about whether he’s a real killer; the actual definition becomes semantic.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2025
To an extent this is a semantic conversation.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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