as in lexicographer
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Noun
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After graduating, Wallace-Hadrill worked as a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary.—
Maureen Mackey,
FOXNews.com,
30 Mar. 2025 -
Esme was the motherless daughter of one of the lexicographers, and spent her youth sitting under the table in the Scriptorium while words were sorted and accepted or discarded.—
The Know,
The Denver Post,
2 Mar. 2025
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To identify this standout group, Forbes editors worked with expert judges—including musician Sam Smith, Spotify’s head of podcasts for Central Europe Saruul Krause-Jentsch, and fashion designer Stella Jean—to review more than 10,000 candidates, evaluating them on impact, financials, and creativity.—
Alexandra York,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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Submit a letter to the editor or write to letters@theatlantic.com.—
Alan Taylor,
The Atlantic,
14 Apr. 2025
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My obsession with this topic started with research from linguist Andrew Bray.—
Popular Science Team,
Popular Science,
12 Feb. 2025
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But the cognitive scientist Asifa Majid, now of Oxford, and the linguist Niclas Burenhult, of Lund University, in Sweden, have shown that this needn’t be the case.—
Manvir Singh,
The New Yorker,
23 Dec. 2024
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“Definer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/definer. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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