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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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Following a few more years of work, the lexicographer—a studier or compiler of dictionaries—transferred his entire project online for anyone to peruse.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
19 Feb. 2026
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Miss Manners would be sorry to think that retirement had left you oblivious to the dynamics of life, which, indeed, lexicographers must follow.—
Judith Martin,
Mercury News,
3 Feb. 2026
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But News Corporation executives somehow directed Chalker to Daniel Halpern, the bushy-haired and left-leaning editor of the company’s literary imprint Ecco Press.—
David D. Kirkpatrick,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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This results page was generated automatically using information from TinBu and a template written and reviewed by a USA Today editor.—
USA Today staff,
USA Today,
29 Mar. 2026
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These rules are simplified from a set proposed by anthropologist Brent Berlin and linguist Paul Kay in 1969.—
Emma R. Hasson,
Scientific American,
19 Mar. 2026
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One of those dissenters was the linguist Mark Liberman, who lambasted the word numerous times over the years in his blog Language Log.—
Harmeet Kaur,
CNN Money,
25 Feb. 2026
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“Definer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/definer. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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