lexicographer

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Recent Examples of lexicographer As 2025 draws to a close, the lexicographers and linguists at the world’s most used and well-known dictionaries have begun their sometimes polarizing annual ritual of trying to capture the year’s zeitgeist through a single word. Chad De Guzman, Time, 18 Nov. 2025 In 1758, lexicographer, textbook pioneer, and English-language spelling reformer Noah Webster is born. Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025 Even before Google’s AI Overview began taking clicks from definitions written by flesh-and-bone lexicographers, the trajectory of the industry was clear. Stefan Fatsis, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2025 The selection process combined a public vote with language analysis by Oxford lexicographers. Janae Bowens, Baltimore Sun, 31 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for lexicographer
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Noun
  • 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
  • Dutkiewicz worked with linguist Christian Bentz, an associate professor who studies the history of language at Saarland University in Germany, to digitize the markings on the objects.
    Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • And much like the fictional sport’s real-world counterpart, in this all-animal cinematic universe, roarball is the ultimate culture-definer.
    Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 13 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • John Lindstrom Lindstrom spent more than three decades at Gongwer News Service, building a career that included 16 years as a reporter, nine as editor and 10 as publisher overseeing the company’s Michigan operations.
    Nour Rahal, Freep.com, 1 Mar. 2026
  • This results page was generated automatically using information from TinBu and a template written and reviewed by an Indiana editor.
    Chris Sims, IndyStar, 1 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • In fact, according to a new interview with Us Weekly, royal biographer Russell Myers said that the Prince of Wales wanted Andrew’s removal from royal life as far back as 2019, after the former Duke of York’s disastrous BBC Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis.
    Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Over the past 24 years, Susan Claassen, who co-wrote the play with Head biographer Paddy Calistro, has performed the show around the country more than 1,500 times.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Powering the portable scribbler is 1.7-GHz dual-core processing supported by 2 GB of RAM and 64 GB of internal storage.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 8 Sep. 2025
  • All remaining scribblers should lay down their squibs and come out, squinting, arms aloft in surrender.
    Jayson Greene, Time, 17 June 2025

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“Lexicographer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lexicographer. Accessed 6 Mar. 2026.

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