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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
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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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Babbel lessons were designed by a team of over 100 expert linguists.—
StackCommerce Team (Sponsored),
PCMAG,
27 Jan. 2025
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New Music Latin is a compilation of the best new Latin songs and albums recommended by Billboard Latin and Billboard Español editors.—
Ingrid Fajardo,
Billboard,
14 Feb. 2025
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Every personal finance article is based on rigorous reporting by our team of expert writers and editors with extensive knowledge of financial products.—
Andreina Rodriguez,
CNBC,
14 Feb. 2025
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Marshall is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer who specializes in trailblazing American women, including 19th-century journalist Margaret Fuller and midcentury poet Elizabeth Bishop.—
April Austin,
The Christian Science Monitor,
11 Feb. 2025
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The Party was targeting a biographer, an investigative reporter, a political commentator, and a legal correspondent.—
Ruth Margalit,
The New Yorker,
16 Jan. 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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We should be concerned not just for our personal pocketbooks but for the state of our art—and the current moment calls for dreamers, strummers, and scribblers to be unusually thoughtful, tactical, and shrewd.—
Sean Michaels,
The New Yorker,
21 June 2023
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