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Recent Examples of definer
And much like the fictional sport’s real-world counterpart, in this all-animal cinematic universe, roarball is the ultimate culture-definer.
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Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 13 Feb. 2026
Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 13 Feb. 2026
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Noun
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Stamper, a lexicographer and former editor at Merriam-Webster, charts the history of how thousands of colors came to be defined in Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, published in 1961.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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One of the jobs of a lexicographer is to proofread dictionary entries.—
Kory Stamper,
Longreads,
19 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Emma Caughlan Emma Caughlan is an assignment editor for NBC News’ New York bureau.—
Jay Blackman,
NBC news,
4 May 2026
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But Lincoln was the Declaration’s most pitiless and most brilliant editor.—
Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
Noun
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Byron Sigcho-Lopez, an outspoken City Council progressive; Mayra Macías, a former Planned Parenthood Action Fund member with deep ties to the Democratic Party; and Lindsay Church, a former Navy linguist who runs a nonprofit serving minority veterans.—
Jake Sheridan,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Apr. 2026
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But in little more than an hour, their questions and comments will lead the 25-year-old Winner, an Air Force veteran and linguist working for a National Security Agency contractor, to confess to mailing a classified intelligence document to a news organization.—
Jim Higgins,
jsonline.com,
24 Mar. 2026
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“Definer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/definer. Accessed 6 May. 2026.
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