as in lexicographer
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Noun
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After graduating, Wallace-Hadrill worked as a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary.—
Maureen Mackey,
FOXNews.com,
30 Mar. 2025 -
Esme was the motherless daughter of one of the lexicographers, and spent her youth sitting under the table in the Scriptorium while words were sorted and accepted or discarded.—
The Know,
The Denver Post,
2 Mar. 2025
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Its editors, Brigitte Bailey, Noelle A. Baker, and Megan Marshall, have embedded Fuller’s two books and a selection of her reportage in the context of her journals and correspondence.—
James Marcus,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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Below are the 13 best tanning waters, according to Vogue editors, bronzing buffs, estheticians, and derms.—
Jenny Berg,
Vogue,
2 June 2025
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But the human brain routinely does this work nearly instantaneously based on the language’s grammatical rules, says linguist Andrea E. Martin of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands.—
Gayoung Lee,
Scientific American,
14 Apr. 2025
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Why was Kenny Leon the ultimate director for Othello? Moreland: Kenny is a true linguist.—
Jeryl Brunner,
Forbes,
24 Mar. 2025
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“Definer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/definer. Accessed 7 Jun. 2025.
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