lexicographical
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The author burrowed into lexicographical lore, adjusting to the “musky” smell of old paper, but was alive to the need to register the zeitgeist.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025
As the child of refugees, coming late to English, Roget has no interest in obsolete terms and is strikingly hospitable to foreign borrowings, sometimes a matter of contention in lexicographical circles.
From The Guardian • May 1, 2017
It is also a perverse irony that the entries that end up taking the most lexicographical time are usually fairly fixed.
From Slate • Mar. 14, 2017
Partridge cut his lexicographical teeth in 1933, when he published this history of slang, Slang To-Day and Yesterday.
From Salon • Oct. 15, 2012
There is no lexicographical version of Gresham’s Law in which the bad meaning of a word always drives out the good one.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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