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Starting at the micro level, and with the PISTOL emoji in particular, Jane Solomon, senior emoji lexicographer at Emojipedia, has demonstrated that 🔫 more often points toward other emoji (and often toward a face emoji at that), rather than away from them.
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Longreads, 1 July 2025
After graduating, Wallace-Hadrill worked as a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary.
—Maureen MacKey, FOXNews.com, 30 Mar. 2025
Esme was the motherless daughter of one of the lexicographers, and spent her youth sitting under the table in the Scriptorium while words were sorted and accepted or discarded.
—The Know, The Denver Post, 2 Mar. 2025
But popularity isn’t the only factor lexicographers consider when determining the word of the year.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Nov. 2024
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Longreads, 1 July 2025
After graduating, Wallace-Hadrill worked as a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary.
—Maureen MacKey, FOXNews.com, 30 Mar. 2025
Esme was the motherless daughter of one of the lexicographers, and spent her youth sitting under the table in the Scriptorium while words were sorted and accepted or discarded.
—The Know, The Denver Post, 2 Mar. 2025
But popularity isn’t the only factor lexicographers consider when determining the word of the year.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lexicographer
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That view was challenged in a recent paper by Gašper Beguš, a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley; Maksymilian Dąbkowski, who recently received his doctorate in linguistics at Berkeley; and Ryan Rhodes of Rutgers University.—
Steve Nadis,
Quanta Magazine,
31 Oct. 2025
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If so, this would be a find about ten times older than Proto-Indo-European, and well past the limits of what linguists think language can preserve.—
Manvir Singh,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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Ryan Gaydos is a senior editor for Fox News Digital.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
10 Nov. 2025
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His most recent stop before Arkansas was in Baltimore, Maryland, as a night and breaking news editor.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
10 Nov. 2025
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Some very conservative biographer writes a biography of Ronald Reagan and some very liberal historian rights a biography of Reagan.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
28 Oct. 2025
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At the same time, President Ronald Reagan biographer Craig Shirley compared Ingrassia to the Democratic nominee to become Virginia’s next attorney general, Jay Jones.—
Naomi Lim,
The Washington Examiner,
23 Oct. 2025
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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
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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 10 Nov. 2025.
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