as in linguistic
of or relating to words or language
a dictionary provides lexical information—it tells you what the word "cat" means, not all there is to know about cats
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Recent Examples of lexical
The appearance of these five lexical inventions marks the first time that humankind ever attached words to this invisible and magical mystery.
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Big Think, 18 Nov. 2025
Barrett designed a reading program to help flag emerging lexical items and turbocharge additions, tripling the volume of new words added in the site’s periodic updates over the course of a year.
—Stefan Fatsis, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2025
Templates enforce everything from slide masters to the lexical choices that signal risk levels; the model should not be able to invent metrics or rewrite disclaimers.
—Noah Ohrner, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
With the arrival of printing, the new terminology created more opportunities for lexical growth, as did the publishing industry; and the emergence of the internet has produced still more.
—David Crystal
june 27, Literary Hub, 27 June 2025
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Big Think, 18 Nov. 2025
Barrett designed a reading program to help flag emerging lexical items and turbocharge additions, tripling the volume of new words added in the site’s periodic updates over the course of a year.
—Stefan Fatsis, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2025
Templates enforce everything from slide masters to the lexical choices that signal risk levels; the model should not be able to invent metrics or rewrite disclaimers.
—Noah Ohrner, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
With the arrival of printing, the new terminology created more opportunities for lexical growth, as did the publishing industry; and the emergence of the internet has produced still more.
—David Crystal
june 27, Literary Hub, 27 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lexical
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Kang noted that Demon Hunters’ visual style was consciously shaped by her lifelong love of anime and manhwa — Korean comics and graphic novels — and executed with careful attention to Korean linguistic and cultural nuances, even though the film’s lingua franca is American English.—
Dan Bilefsky,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Mar. 2026
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Human English contains persistent, if subtle, linguistic patterns of variation and readability.—
Laura Aull,
The Conversation,
20 Mar. 2026
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Traffic offenses accounted for two-thirds of tickets issued, and verbal assault and property theft were the most common forms of victimization.—
Katie Jackson,
Outside,
19 Mar. 2026
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The season expansion is one dimension of the verbal agreement between WNBA owners and players, solidified in the early hours of Wednesday morning after more than a week of nonstop negotiations.—
Sara Germano,
Sportico.com,
19 Mar. 2026
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Back in 1961, astronomer Frank Drake put chalk to board and devised a formula to estimate the number of communicative civilizations in the Milky Way.—
Leonard David,
Space.com,
17 Mar. 2026
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From the get-go, Vespaio was incredibly kind and communicative when planning our rehearsal dinner.—
Matthew Odam,
Austin American Statesman,
27 Feb. 2026
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“Lexical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lexical. Accessed 25 Mar. 2026.
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