as in lexicographer
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Noun
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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 -
But popularity isn’t the only factor lexicographers consider when determining the word of the year.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
25 Nov. 2024
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Before the Democratic National Convention in 1912, McCombs encouraged prominent journalists and editors to write articles supportive of Wilson's nomination.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
22 Mar. 2025
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March 22, 2025 All products are independently selected by our editors.—
Christa Joanna Lee,
Allure,
22 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Details like these aren’t just arcana for linguists to obsess over.—
Bob Holmes,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 Mar. 2025
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Conrad Gessner, the sixteenth-century Swiss physician, naturalist, and linguist, and reputedly the first European to describe the guinea pig, the tulip, and the pencil, is also said to be the first to write extensively about the northern bald ibis.—
Nick Paumgarten,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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“Definer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/definer. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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