semanticist
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For a summer conference on general semantics at St. Louis, Hayakawa organized his antipathy to pop lyrics into a thesis based on what a fellow semanticist has labeled "the IFD disease."
From Time Magazine Archive
The Senate The political novices included a 70-year-old semanticist in California, a former astronaut in New Mexico, a rancher in Wyoming and a tax lawyer in Utah.
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As the noted semanticist and conservative Republican Senator S.I.
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"She and Mrs. Wright were like two empresses in the same empire," the semanticist and former U.S.
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And even a skilled semanticist had trouble in making anything called a Fuzzy sound menacing.
From Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper
Slidell, La. Sir: No doubt there will be a spate of discussion by semanticists as well as theologians about the morning-after pill.
From Time Magazine Archive
A portion of what Farb says has been said by the old semanticists and, in fact, by such commentators on the vagary of words as Lewis Carroll.
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The men around the table sounded more like semanticists than diplomats, exploring the precise meaning of such terms, widely used by the Russians on Berlin, as "access." "free city" and "guarantees."
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