semantics

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But if what happened on Jan. 6 amounts to a quarrel over semantics, then the “big lie” must be bothering Tucker more than I reckoned.

From Washington Post

However, when testing the Sleep, this distinction sort of felt like a matter of semantics.

From The Verge

Even the abortion rights movement has seemed distracted by semantics, moving, for example, to replace the phrase “a woman’s right to choose” with “a person’s right to choose.”

From Washington Post

Regardless of the semantics, the humanitarian situation in parts of Ukraine continued to worsen.

From Washington Post

She claims DeepMind’s communications team used “semantics” to “push back” on the Financial Times’ story and shorten the amount of time it took to address her case.

From The Verge