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of or relating to words or language
a dictionary provides lexical information—it tells you what the word "cat" means, not all there is to know about cats
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Recent Examples of lexical
Because JavaScript interprets each number as a string type and does lexical sorting, not numerical sorting.
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Sheon Han, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2024
By adopting methods like tiered retention, lexical scoping and hashing, companies can responsibly moderate content while respecting user privacy.
—George Ng, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
This can help spot linguistic features which humans may miss, calculating the percentage prevalence of words and classes of words, lexical diversity, average sentence length, grammatical patterns and many other metrics.
—Mohammed Al-Mosaiwi, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2018
Last August, Hungarian neuroscientists Atilla Andics and colleagues reported that the left hemisphere of the dog brain is selectively activated in response to the lexical properties (i.e. the meaning) of spoken words.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2017
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Sheon Han, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2024
By adopting methods like tiered retention, lexical scoping and hashing, companies can responsibly moderate content while respecting user privacy.
—George Ng, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
This can help spot linguistic features which humans may miss, calculating the percentage prevalence of words and classes of words, lexical diversity, average sentence length, grammatical patterns and many other metrics.
—Mohammed Al-Mosaiwi, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2018
Last August, Hungarian neuroscientists Atilla Andics and colleagues reported that the left hemisphere of the dog brain is selectively activated in response to the lexical properties (i.e. the meaning) of spoken words.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2017
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Seemingly impossible linguistic, cultural and digital divides can be crossed when people approach each other with respect, sincerity, a touch of humor – and perhaps the aid of AI translators.—
Jianqing Chen,
The Conversation,
19 Jan. 2025
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That agreement would have required Ukrainian neutrality, substantial demilitarization, and the provision of cultural and linguistic rights for the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine.—
Fred Weir,
The Christian Science Monitor,
17 Jan. 2025
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The course for the military’s aptitude test consisted of math and verbal questions at a junior-high level.—
Dexter Filkins,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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Yet Trump’s wild verbal justifications for them are also worth examining, for two reasons.—
Robert Greene,
The Mercury News,
1 Feb. 2025
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On the same day, communicative Mercury and penetrating Pluto unite in Aquarius.—
Lisa Stardust,
refinery29.com,
27 Jan. 2025
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The process of cultivating future leaders—equipped with the gamut of skills, from communicative and interpretive to affective and perceptual, needed to lead proactive collaboration—is no different.—
Lynette Tan,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
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“Lexical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lexical. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.
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