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Recent Examples of definer
And much like the fictional sport’s real-world counterpart, in this all-animal cinematic universe, roarball is the ultimate culture-definer.
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Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 13 Feb. 2026
Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 13 Feb. 2026
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Noun
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Following a few more years of work, the lexicographer—a studier or compiler of dictionaries—transferred his entire project online for anyone to peruse.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
19 Feb. 2026
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Miss Manners would be sorry to think that retirement had left you oblivious to the dynamics of life, which, indeed, lexicographers must follow.—
Judith Martin,
Mercury News,
3 Feb. 2026
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The cover girl is Ger van Braam, an Indonesian woman who subscribed to The Ladder and sent her picture to the editor in search of kinship.—
Naaman Zhou,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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To send a letter to the editor about this article, submit online or check out our guidelines for how to submit by email or mail.—
Lisa Frizell,
Denver Post,
6 Apr. 2026
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But in little more than an hour, their questions and comments will lead the 25-year-old Winner, an Air Force veteran and linguist working for a National Security Agency contractor, to confess to mailing a classified intelligence document to a news organization.—
Jim Higgins,
jsonline.com,
24 Mar. 2026
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These rules are simplified from a set proposed by anthropologist Brent Berlin and linguist Paul Kay in 1969.—
Emma R. Hasson,
Scientific American,
19 Mar. 2026
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“Definer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/definer. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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