How to Use lexicographer in a Sentence

lexicographer

noun

• That is the task of the lexicographer, the human who watches words spread and tracks the way people use them.
  — Katy Steinmetz, Time, 27 Sep. 2017
• But then, part of the thrill of being a lexicographer is knowing that the work will never be done.
  — Ben Huberman, Longreads, 3 Mar. 2018
• Kory Stamper, a lexicographer here, is very much part of the vanguard of word-nerd celebrities.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2017
• Surprising histories lurk in the bellies of sharks and the lives of lexicographers.
  — Julian Lucas, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
• Few lexicographers are lucky enough, then, to have both endlessly pleasurable work and the talent to write amusingly about it.
  — The Economist, 19 Oct. 2017
• At the same time, Dr. Nunberg was a lexicographer — a writer of dictionaries.
  — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2020
• Tracing the patterns of these influences is the job of the historical lexicographer.
  — Jesse Sheidlower, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2017
• But this abundance of Internet speak and signals can be hard to keep up with, as new meanings spread across the web at a speed that was unimaginable when lexicographers relied on filing cabinets.
  — Katy Steinmetz, Time, 6 Mar. 2018
• The newspaper publisher and lexicographer Noah Webster averred that the pestilence emanated from the ash of a volcanic eruption in Sicily.
  — Frederick Kaufman, The New Yorker, 13 May 2020
• But then a grammarian or a lexicographer decided that both spellings should be preserved, and that the main meanings should be divided between them.
  — David Owen, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2023
• That’s partly to set themselves apart, and partly because the digital tools used by modern lexicographers are WOTY-friendly.
  — Stefan Fatsis, Slate Magazine, 3 Feb. 2017
• Many knowledgeable critics thought Worcester innocent of the charges — and the better lexicographer.
  — Bryan A. Garner, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
• Shortz, like a lexicographer, makes the ultimate call on whether an entry is significant enough to include in a puzzle that people will still be solving in reprinted or archived form years after its initial run.
  — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2019
• Some are purely wicked but others—an artist, a travel writer, a lexicographer—are there for more conflictedly voyeuristic purposes.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2021
• After making a reservation, guests are asked by email to meet him — or his partner, Jesse Sheidlower, a lexicographer — outside a graffitied metal door in Bushwick.
  — Alan Feuer, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2017
• Samuel Johnson used similar language—harmless drudge—to describe the lexicographer who compiles a dictionary.
  — Alexandra Horowitz, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2022
• Big data allows us to assess the relative frequency of alternative constructions in a way that is most useful to grammarians and lexicographers.
  — Bryan A. Garner, National Review, 2 Apr. 2020
• The compiling of dictionaries may seem a quiet topic, but this memoiristic account of the lexicographer’s art, by an editor at Merriam-Webster, is an unlikely page-turner.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
• The job entailed his becoming an etymologist, lexicographer and field worker generally among the native speakers in his own country.
  — Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2018
• Linguists and lexicographers acknowledge that linguistic innovation, and therefore linguistic survival, starts with youth speech, and especially the speech of young women.
  — Kory Stamper, The Cut, 29 Jan. 2018
• Enter Joseph Worcester, the only lexicographer in history to edit three dictionaries covering the same subject matter for three competing publishers in three consecutive years.
  — Bryan A. Garner, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
• Surprisingly, lexicographers like Kory Stamper have not been dismayed by coarse presidential language.
  — Stephanie Ebbert, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• Particularly interesting to word nerds like Sokolowski, a lexicographer, is quarantine.
  — Leanne Italie, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Dec. 2020
• Indeed, the spark for nationalist movements has often been historians, writers, lexicographers, and folklorists who celebrated and promoted vernacular languages and excavated a glorious literary past.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 10 Nov. 2019
• Members in the 129-year-old organization include linguists, lexicographers, etymologists, grammarians, historians, researchers, writers, editors, students, and independent scholars, according to the ADS release.
  — Lisa Marie Segarra, Time, 6 Jan. 2018

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