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Recent Examples of lexicographer
Once its lexicographers establish a shortlist for Word of the Year, Oxford opens voting on its website.
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Melina Khan, USA Today, 1 Dec. 2025
From there, though, the American bird became a victim of mistaken identity, according to lexicographer Erin McKean.
—Natalie Escobar, NPR, 26 Nov. 2025
In 1758, lexicographer, textbook pioneer, and English-language spelling reformer Noah Webster is born.
—Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
The selection process combined a public vote with language analysis by Oxford lexicographers.
—Janae Bowens, Baltimore Sun, 31 Dec. 2024
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Melina Khan, USA Today, 1 Dec. 2025
From there, though, the American bird became a victim of mistaken identity, according to lexicographer Erin McKean.
—Natalie Escobar, NPR, 26 Nov. 2025
In 1758, lexicographer, textbook pioneer, and English-language spelling reformer Noah Webster is born.
—Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
The selection process combined a public vote with language analysis by Oxford lexicographers.
—Janae Bowens, Baltimore Sun, 31 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lexicographer
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With daily-speaker numbers declining census after census, linguist Conchúr Ó Giollagáin warned in 2015 that Irish as a living language — as opposed to a school subject, Duolingo hobby, or urban identity badge — could be gone in about 10 years.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
4 May 2026
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Byron Sigcho-Lopez, an outspoken City Council progressive; Mayra Macías, a former Planned Parenthood Action Fund member with deep ties to the Democratic Party; and Lindsay Church, a former Navy linguist who runs a nonprofit serving minority veterans.—
Jake Sheridan,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Apr. 2026
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And much like the fictional sport’s real-world counterpart, in this all-animal cinematic universe, roarball is the ultimate culture-definer.—
Payton Turkeltaub,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2026
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Bryna Laub, editor of Daytime Serial Newsletter, felt the show besmirched the sanctity of soaps and contributed to the broader currents of shame surrounding the genre.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
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Josh Rivera is a senior travel and consumer editor for USA TODAY.—
Josh Rivera,
USA Today,
17 May 2026
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Romano’s sturdy book may not stint on examples of Mary’s bad behavior—including a ferociously jealous verbal assault, near the end of the war, on the wife of a prominent Union general—but the biographer keeps tilting against those who slighted Mary in even the most superficial ways.—
Thomas Mallon,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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While Goodman’s paradoxes and fantasies posed challenges to me as her biographer, with the advent of AI slop and ChatGPT, our courtship with illusion (and possibly delusion) is here to stay.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 May 2026
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Powering the portable scribbler is 1.7-GHz dual-core processing supported by 2 GB of RAM and 64 GB of internal storage.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
8 Sep. 2025
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All remaining scribblers should lay down their squibs and come out, squinting, arms aloft in surrender.—
Jayson Greene,
Time,
17 June 2025
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“Lexicographer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lexicographer. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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