Example Sentences

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A year ago, the lexicographic grandees at Oxford Languages dutifully stuck out their arms and chose “vax” as the 2021 Word of the Year.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2022

The young women began memorizing vocabulary lists and testing each others’ lexicographic skills.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2018

Webster’s Third represented only the death of lexicographic gatekeeping.

From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2018

In 1982 a new boss shocked the then-editor with a plan to computerise the dictionary’s ways: both the lexicographic work itself, with digital research files, and its outcome, an OED on compact disc.

From Economist • Oct. 27, 2016

In the above list are not included a number of medical, astrological, calendarial and philological or lexicographic works, mostly written during or since the Cilician or crusading epoch.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various