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of or relating to words or language
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Recent Examples of lexical
Laborious yet lithe lads and lasses have loyally leapt to luminate the lexical labyrinths of logic locking the lucrative lotto, longing to lure the lavish luxury lying latently in local landmarks.
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Jared Kaufman,
Twin Cities,
28 Jan. 2026
Sometimes a word has to serve time in lexical purgatory before it can be admitted to the Big Book.
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Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
Luvell Anderson, head of the philosophy department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has written extensively on the lexical category of slurs.
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Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
6 Dec. 2025
The appearance of these five lexical inventions marks the first time that humankind ever attached words to this invisible and magical mystery.
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Big Think,
18 Nov. 2025
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Jared Kaufman,
Twin Cities,
28 Jan. 2026
Sometimes a word has to serve time in lexical purgatory before it can be admitted to the Big Book.
—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
Luvell Anderson, head of the philosophy department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has written extensively on the lexical category of slurs.
—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
6 Dec. 2025
The appearance of these five lexical inventions marks the first time that humankind ever attached words to this invisible and magical mystery.
—
Big Think,
18 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lexical
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Learning the Indonesian language, Bahasa Indonesia, is also part of the French team’s program, as linguistic proximity has already proven effective with other international partners.
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That his language was English and not American was the cause of ample anxiety for a linguistic nationalist like Webster, no less than my own as evidenced in my rejoinders to a bartender at the Boot Pub more than two centuries later.
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Ro said interactive chatbots have technological hurdles to overcome, such as a mismatch between their verbal comments and their facial expressions.
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According to the preliminary investigation, a woman and Diguglielmo got into a verbal fight over a parking space, BSO said.
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But the highest-value layer will be people who combine financial fluency with the kind of strategic, communicative intelligence that helps the whole organization make better decisions.
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The great speculators became talkative and communicative or dull, sullen, silent, and peevish.
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“Lexical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lexical. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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