How to Use semantic in a Sentence

semantic

adjective

• Words take a lot of their semantic coloration from the words around them.
  — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
• An agent with context can catch semantic drift.
  — Nico Hänggi, Forbes.com, 12 Mar. 2026
• The semantic games will matter much less once pen hits paper.
  — Jim Newell, Slate Magazine, 3 Feb. 2017
• Some might object that this all boils down to semantic quibbling.
  — Will Oremus, Slate Magazine, 20 Sep. 2017
• Todd noted on a less-news-heavy day, his semantic gaffe might have been its own story.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2020
• The change is not merely semantic.
  — Tom Debley, Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2025
• What does this semantic shift look like in practice for AI teams?
  — Titus Capilnean, Forbes, 21 June 2021
• Replit built a semantic layer over its data so agents knew which tables were sources of truth.
  — John Sviokla, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
• The long-term cost of misuse This is not just a semantic fight among experts.
  — Brian O'Neill, The Conversation, 5 Feb. 2026
• This isn't just semantic wordplay.
  — Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
• Science backs up this idea that our feelings about moist stem from a place of semantic uneasiness.
  — Literary Hub, 21 Apr. 2026
• Microsoft says an update will soon bring the semantic search for settings to the taskbar.
  — Jibin Joseph, PCMAG, 21 Jan. 2025
• That is where semantic data models come into play.
  — Norbert Jung, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2025
• The waxy mental build-up of these semantic assaults takes a toll on a Black person over time.
  — Michele Barnwell, Good Housekeeping, 4 Aug. 2020
• What others may see as a semantic difference is, for him, a deal-breaker.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 19 Aug. 2022
• The agent can query a semantic view, calculate a risk position and act.
  — Jay Limburn, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
• Its rise has sparked a semantic debate that tends toward the solipsistic.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 17 July 2021
• But this is a semantic distraction.
  — James Broughel, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
• The difference is more than semantic.
  — Catherine Tansey, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 June 2026
• In real estate, there’s more than a semantic difference between a dead end and a cul-de-sac.
  — Sue Corbett, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2018
• Companies have tried to put semantic guardrails in place to limit what chatbots can say, but that doesn’t always work.
  — Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 7 May 2023
• Looker’s semantic model is a single version of the truth across all data.
  — Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
• One is that, except for a few edge cases, semantic entropy caught more false answers than any other methods.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 20 June 2024
• The key issue for critics is a semantic—but crucial—distinction.
  — Joshua Sokol, The Atlantic, 30 May 2017
• The distinction between famine and chronic hunger is not merely semantic.
  — Douglas Gollin, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2016
• As search shifts from keywords to semantic vectors, matching user intent is what matters.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
• If the question can't be answered by the top tier, the computer will fall back on semantic, and if that doesn't work, fall back on Google.
  — Erin McCarthy, Popular Mechanics, 6 Apr. 2010
• The case hung on the semantic question of whether a langostino could legally be considered a lobster.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Jan. 2021
• Guests can take the playful lines and semantic wordplay and place them arbitrarily.
  — Cassell Ferere, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
• This may seem like semantic quibbling, but the stakes of imprecise legislation in this domain are quite high.
  — Kevin Frazier, Sun Sentinel, 22 Jan. 2026