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Recent Examples of lexicographer
Today, Americanisms are easy for modern lexicographers to find because of the internet and access to large data sets.
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Sarah Ogilvie, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2023
Swan had written and was shopping a screenplay, The Saint and the Scoundrel, about Samuel Johnson, the English lexicographer who published A Dictionary of the English Language in 1755 and suffered from Tourette syndrome.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2023
Last summer, a team of linguists and lexicographers from Oxford and researchers from Harvard began a new project, the Oxford Dictionary of African American English.
—Alex Carp, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
Some linguists and lexicographers agree that African American language and culture deserves its own dictionary.
—Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN, 11 June 2023
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Sarah Ogilvie, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2023
Swan had written and was shopping a screenplay, The Saint and the Scoundrel, about Samuel Johnson, the English lexicographer who published A Dictionary of the English Language in 1755 and suffered from Tourette syndrome.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2023
Last summer, a team of linguists and lexicographers from Oxford and researchers from Harvard began a new project, the Oxford Dictionary of African American English.
—Alex Carp, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
Some linguists and lexicographers agree that African American language and culture deserves its own dictionary.
—Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN, 11 June 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lexicographer
Noun
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Recently, five computational linguists put Chomsky’s claim to the test.—
Ben Brubaker,
Quanta Magazine,
13 Jan. 2025
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As linguists and geneticists continue to untangle the origins of Indo-European languages, one thing is clear—the story of language is one of movement, change and cultural exchange, far from the rigid, nationalist narratives of the past.—
Ella Jeffries,
Smithsonian Magazine,
6 Feb. 2025
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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 suburbanletters@tribpub.com.—
Lake County News-Sun,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Feb. 2025
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Listen to this article Doris Kearns Goodwin, the famous historian and biographer of Abraham Lincoln, has said that only Jesus has been written about more than our 16th president over the past 165 years.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Feb. 2025
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In this slim volume of essays, Marshall, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, turns inward, reflecting on her discovery of old personal paraphernalia, including letters and photographs.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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Image Wojnarowski transcended the relative anonymity of most sports scribblers by virtue of his hustle and connections often landing him N.B.A. stories before anyone else.—
Victor Mather,
New York Times,
25 Feb. 2025
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Try your hand at drawing a model, whether your a pro or a scribbler.—
Amanda Rosa,
Miami Herald,
1 July 2024
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“Lexicographer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lexicographer. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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