as in lexicographer
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Noun
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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 -
But popularity isn’t the only factor lexicographers consider when determining the word of the year.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
25 Nov. 2024
Noun
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Since the announcement, two former top Post editors have come out against the move.—
Liam Reilly,
CNN,
26 Feb. 2025
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Share your views Submit letters to the editor via email to [email protected].—
Lake County News-Sun,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Conrad Gessner, the sixteenth-century Swiss physician, naturalist, and linguist, and reputedly the first European to describe the guinea pig, the tulip, and the pencil, is also said to be the first to write extensively about the northern bald ibis.—
Nick Paumgarten,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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In this piece for The Dial, Julia Webster Ayuso reports on the field of forensic linguistics, in which linguists look for patterns in language—syntax, punctuation, spelling, word choice—to find clues in criminal investigations.—
Cheri Lucas Rowlands,
Longreads,
22 Nov. 2024
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“Definer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/definer. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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