Example sentences for: lexicographic

How can you use “lexicographic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Strict chronological presentation of dated citations is at best a lexicographic Procrustean bed, at worst very misleading.

  • In part, that is attributable to the designation of his correspondents, who keep him informed on language that is not within earshot, as the “Lexicographic Irregulars,” an amusing reference the first time or two it was used but now beginning to cloy.

  • Lexicographic technocrats enjoy using terms like terminology, terminography, LSP language for special purposes, LGP language for general purposes, lemma, lexeme , and other words, reflecting the notion, long prevalent in psychology, sociology, and other social sciences, that if you can give a problem a name, you have somehow gone a long way toward solving it.

  • That is why virtually every American dictionary of any shape, size, provenance, comprehensiveness, quality, and lexicographic persuasion is likely to be called a Webster these days.

  • In a move that, from a lexicographic standpoint, is decidedly un-American, the government set up an official board to rule on and standardize the use of place names, both domestic and foreign.


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