How to Use lexical in a Sentence

lexical

adjective
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  • As ever, there’s a new round of Quordle against which to test your lexical skills.
    — Kris Holt, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2023
  • There are other ways to wage a social struggle on the lexical front.
    — The Economist, 22 June 2019
  • Since this was a global health catastrophe, many of the lexical changes have been health-related.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 24 Dec. 2020
  • The trumpet and flugelhorn solos are what lead a large orchestra on its wild lexical ride.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Dumpster fire, in lexical and emoji form, defeated woke in a runoff.
    — Stefan Fatsis, Slate Magazine, 3 Feb. 2017
  • Welcome to your Friday edition of Quordle, the word game that puts your lexical skills to the test four times as intensely as Wordle ever could.
    — Kris Holt, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
  • And light drinkers weren't better than abstainers at lexical fluency, the study showed.
    — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2017
  • Most of the videos are appended with searchable transcripts—a fun tool for those interested in lexical tics.
    — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2017
  • It’s a private publication, owned by the Walt Disney Co. , that is free to make its own lexical decisions.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Or emoji might be a lexical fad, here for now but gone as soon as this wave of digital natives hands control of the global village over to the next generation.
    — Nick Stockton, WIRED, 24 June 2015
  • Her decision to hold a snap election in June last year brought lexical complications.
    — James Masters, CNN, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Part of my technique was also to invent an entire lexical field or vocabulary for these children.
    — Candice Frederick, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 Oct. 2020
  • On the opposite end of the spectrum is the popular sign name for Donald Trump, which bears no lexical relationship to the president’s name in English but deftly evokes his iconic comb-over.
    — Sonja Sharp Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Now, Biden and his supporters are making the next lexical jump, taking what was once an arcane word for physical assets and transforming it to mean anything the government deems worthy of spending.
    — Nicole Gelinas, Washington Examiner, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Apologies don’t come easily and sorry, therefore, is given special status – a lexical Gorilla Glue that works hard to do the impossible.
    — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 16 July 2021
  • From his lyrical brushstrokes to his lexical compositions, music is imbued even when the reference is subtle or ambiguous.
    — Natasha Gural, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • What happens when 334 linguists, lexicographers, grammarians and etymologists gather in a stuffy lecture hall on a Friday night to debate the lexical trends of the year?
    — Jessica Bennett, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2016
  • The remaining 10-ish percent of early texts includes scribes’ exercises to learn writing and lexical lists, or glossaries of words organized by theme like professions, animals or cities.
    — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 2 Jan. 2019
  • As Mesquita has noticed, many communities seem to manage fine without a lexical equivalent.
    — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
  • This result was very interesting, not least because lexical processing is also lateralized to the left hemisphere in most humans.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2017
  • The case studies were assessed for repetition, or what our team calls lexical diversity, and uniqueness, what our team calls information density.
    — Sergi Valverde, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The commission made a number of other lexical recommendations.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Merrill used innovative research methods such as eye-tracking, heat mapping and lexical analysis to study advisor/client interactions.
    — Bridget Brennan, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Insurance policies almost always include fine print, nuanced stipulations, and other lexical particulars, so selecting the right policy is crucial.
    — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 12 July 2022

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