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Recent Examples of lexicographer
Today, Americanisms are easy for modern lexicographers to find because of the internet and access to large data sets.
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Sarah Ogilvie, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2023
Swan had written and was shopping a screenplay, The Saint and the Scoundrel, about Samuel Johnson, the English lexicographer who published A Dictionary of the English Language in 1755 and suffered from Tourette syndrome.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2023
Last summer, a team of linguists and lexicographers from Oxford and researchers from Harvard began a new project, the Oxford Dictionary of African American English.
—Alex Carp, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
Some linguists and lexicographers agree that African American language and culture deserves its own dictionary.
—Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN, 11 June 2023
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Sarah Ogilvie, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2023
Swan had written and was shopping a screenplay, The Saint and the Scoundrel, about Samuel Johnson, the English lexicographer who published A Dictionary of the English Language in 1755 and suffered from Tourette syndrome.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2023
Last summer, a team of linguists and lexicographers from Oxford and researchers from Harvard began a new project, the Oxford Dictionary of African American English.
—Alex Carp, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
Some linguists and lexicographers agree that African American language and culture deserves its own dictionary.
—Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN, 11 June 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lexicographer
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Thanks to the work of linguists, historians, archaeologists and anthropologists, researchers know a lot about how different body parts are appraised in societies both small and large, from ancient times to the present day.—
Daniel Sznycer,
The Conversation,
10 Jan. 2025
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Morley-Chisholm assembled a team of specialists across every field, from dentists to doctors to surgeons, as well as forensic psychologists, linguists and historians.—
Patrick Wood,
NPR,
29 Nov. 2024
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Every banking article is based on rigorous reporting by our team of expert writers and editors with extensive knowledge of banking products.—
Andreina Rodriguez,
CNBC,
21 Jan. 2025
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Phil Rucker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and editor known in part for his coverage of President Trump’s first term in office, is leaving The Washington Post for CNN after two decades with the newspaper.—
Dominick Mastrangelo,
The Hill,
21 Jan. 2025
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Robert Merry, a McKinley biographer, previously told Yahoo Finance that McKinley realized later on during his presidency that tariffs had limits and that the U.S. needed to have a better flow of goods with global trading partners.—
Addy Bink,
The Hill,
20 Jan. 2025
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Pushing boundaries Trump's early transition moves, including his unorthodox Cabinet picks, reaffirm his willingness to push boundaries and subvert the traditional way of doing things, according to Gwenda Blair, a Trump biographer.—
Zac Anderson,
USA TODAY,
19 Jan. 2025
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Try your hand at drawing a model, whether your a pro or a scribbler.—
Amanda Rosa,
Miami Herald,
1 July 2024
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We should be concerned not just for our personal pocketbooks but for the state of our art—and the current moment calls for dreamers, strummers, and scribblers to be unusually thoughtful, tactical, and shrewd.—
Sean Michaels,
The New Yorker,
21 June 2023
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