How to Use semantic in a Sentence

semantic

adjective

• What does this semantic shift look like in practice for AI teams?
  — Titus Capilnean, Forbes, 21 June 2021
• The waxy mental build-up of these semantic assaults takes a toll on a Black person over time.
  — Michele Barnwell, Good Housekeeping, 4 Aug. 2020
• So what the truth is becomes a slightly semantic point.
  — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 4 Apr. 2024
• If the question can't be answered by the top tier, the computer will fall back on semantic, and if that doesn't work, fall back on Google.
  — Erin McCarthy, Popular Mechanics, 6 Apr. 2010
• Todd noted on a less-news-heavy day, his semantic gaffe might have been its own story.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2020
• The winner of the semantic tussle now will have the upper hand in the November midterm elections.
  — Dallas News, 5 Jan. 2022
• The semantic games will matter much less once pen hits paper.
  — Jim Newell, Slate Magazine, 3 Feb. 2017
• The first is semantic memory: our knowledge about the world and instructions for how to use it.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2021
• Some might object that this all boils down to semantic quibbling.
  — Will Oremus, Slate Magazine, 20 Sep. 2017
• Yeah, there’s still the little semantic issue of bringing the Sonics back to Seattle.
  — Sean Quinton, The Seattle Times, 29 Aug. 2017
• Whether the United States is in a recession now or not is largely a semantic debate.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 30 July 2022
• The reasons for their reluctance, in part, were semantic.
  — Peg Tyre, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2019
• In real estate, there’s more than a semantic difference between a dead end and a cul-de-sac.
  — Sue Corbett, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2018
• What others may see as a semantic difference is, for him, a deal-breaker.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 19 Aug. 2022
• Companies have tried to put semantic guardrails in place to limit what chatbots can say, but that doesn’t always work.
  — Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 7 May 2023
• Its rise has sparked a semantic debate that tends toward the solipsistic.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 17 July 2021
• These giants hath not time for your semantic shenanigans.
  — Jessi Roti, Joe Gray, Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2017
• In the 20th century, the prevalence of jockstraps in a variety of sports led to the word moving in new semantic directions.
  — Ben Zimmer, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2019
• These differences may be more than semantic, according to the authors of the study, which was published Monday in BMJ.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Dec. 2019
• And to be clear, this is a really important semantic point.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 23 May 2018
• But unlike the perilous pullout of nearly all U.S. forces in Afghanistan, the end of the combat mission is more semantic than seminal.
  — Editorial Board Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 30 July 2021
• Last month, reports emerged that the bill was being held up by semantic debates of the Act’s definition of lynching.
  — Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, 9 July 2020
• The case hung on the semantic question of whether a langostino could legally be considered a lobster.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Jan. 2021
• Looker’s semantic model is a single version of the truth across all data.
  — Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
• One was semantic, a form of knowing: that George Washington was the first president of the United States, that cats look different than dogs.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023
• And then there is module that Kazantsev says kind of runs that semantic parser in reverse to make the auto-complete suggestions.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 7 June 2022
• In a sense, that’s a semantic and symbolic distinction.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
• Those with the semantic variant are often still able to speak fluently but lose the ability to understand words.
  — Corinne Purtillstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• The distinction between famine and chronic hunger is not merely semantic.
  — Douglas Gollin, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2016
• But the language processing in our brains will need to involve more than just different semantic categories being processed by different groups of neurons.
  — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 17 July 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024