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
• This is a term that refers to a word’s actual form—its appearance on page or screen, its sound to the ear, its feel on the tongue—as opposed to its semantic meaning.
  — Matthew Kirschenbaum, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2024
• 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
• And yet…the rhyme schemes, the reduplication, the semantic shifts, the conversions, the deliberate grammatical oddities, and rich double entendres–Carpenter is, for some people, the greatest poet to have ever put pen to paper.
  — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024