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
Because JavaScript interprets each number as a string type and does lexical sorting, not numerical sorting.
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Sheon Han, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2024
By adopting methods like tiered retention, lexical scoping and hashing, companies can responsibly moderate content while respecting user privacy.
—George Ng, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
This can help spot linguistic features which humans may miss, calculating the percentage prevalence of words and classes of words, lexical diversity, average sentence length, grammatical patterns and many other metrics.
—Mohammed Al-Mosaiwi, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2018
Last August, Hungarian neuroscientists Atilla Andics and colleagues reported that the left hemisphere of the dog brain is selectively activated in response to the lexical properties (i.e. the meaning) of spoken words.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2017
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Sheon Han, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2024
By adopting methods like tiered retention, lexical scoping and hashing, companies can responsibly moderate content while respecting user privacy.
—George Ng, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
This can help spot linguistic features which humans may miss, calculating the percentage prevalence of words and classes of words, lexical diversity, average sentence length, grammatical patterns and many other metrics.
—Mohammed Al-Mosaiwi, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2018
Last August, Hungarian neuroscientists Atilla Andics and colleagues reported that the left hemisphere of the dog brain is selectively activated in response to the lexical properties (i.e. the meaning) of spoken words.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2017
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This meant that the writing was image-based rather than linguistic.Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
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This is a popular linguistic relativity theory and is generally referred to as Whorfianism or the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (partially associated with anthropologist Benjamin Whorf).Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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But at some universities today, being a Jew on campus has become an act of courage, every walk to class a gauntlet of verbal bullying and physical harassment.Joshua M. Davidson, New York Daily News, 29 Dec. 2024
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Recognition can be in the form of verbal praise or more tangible items like gift cards and bonuses.Caroline Castrillon, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
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Someone who isn't communicative and can't face difficult discussions might resort to passive aggressiveness instead of self-reflection.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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And being more communicative even in my family, being more open, vulnerable and being a little better with my words of affirmation. Martin: Did your parents embrace that part of American culture?Rachel Martin, NPR, 24 Nov. 2024
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“Lexical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lexical. Accessed 7 Jan. 2025.
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