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Recent Examples of lexicographer
Swan had written and was shopping a screenplay, The Saint and the Scoundrel, about Samuel Johnson, the English lexicographer who published A Dictionary of the English Language in 1755 and suffered from Tourette syndrome.
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Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2023
Last summer, a team of linguists and lexicographers from Oxford and researchers from Harvard began a new project, the Oxford Dictionary of African American English.
—Alex Carp, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
Some linguists and lexicographers agree that African American language and culture deserves its own dictionary.
—Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN, 11 June 2023
This pronunciation change happened at a time when American English was trying to differentiate itself from British English, explained Kelly Elizabeth Wright, experimental sociolinguist and lexicographer at Virginia Tech.
—Janelle Davis, CNN, 12 Mar. 2023
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Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2023
Last summer, a team of linguists and lexicographers from Oxford and researchers from Harvard began a new project, the Oxford Dictionary of African American English.
—Alex Carp, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
Some linguists and lexicographers agree that African American language and culture deserves its own dictionary.
—Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN, 11 June 2023
This pronunciation change happened at a time when American English was trying to differentiate itself from British English, explained Kelly Elizabeth Wright, experimental sociolinguist and lexicographer at Virginia Tech.
—Janelle Davis, CNN, 12 Mar. 2023
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It was developed by 100 linguists and backed by academic research.New Atlas, New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2024
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Seeking linguists and translators in Navajo, Twi, Amuzgo, Batak and Dari languages remains a challenge for many language services providers and usually requires contacting educational institutions in South America and India where these languages are included in the linguistic curriculum.Irene Agnew, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
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Holiday deals: Shop this season’s top products and sales curated by our editors.Byron Kaye and Praveen Menon, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2024
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Products are independently selected by our editors.Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 28 Nov. 2024
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Fox claimed to Sinatra biographer Kitty Kelly that the singer stormed out of the room when things came to blows.Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 10 Nov. 2024
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For biographers, these tend to lie in childhood, but Carson’s was boring.Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2024
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Try your hand at drawing a model, whether your a pro or a scribbler.Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 1 July 2024
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We should be concerned not just for our personal pocketbooks but for the state of our art—and the current moment calls for dreamers, strummers, and scribblers to be unusually thoughtful, tactical, and shrewd.Sean Michaels, The New Yorker, 21 June 2023
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