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How to use the word semantics in a Sentence?

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That's certainly on the table. Right now, it is a bit of semantics.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s a slap in the face for any veteran -- any Ranger -- to be attacked that way, it’s not a controversy. It’s a fact that he is a Ranger, just like I’m a Ranger. They’re just playing semantics on the unit in which he served as a Ranger.

– Rick Merritt

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I don't want to get caught in semantics, we all agree, from Speaker Pelosi through every single member of White House Democratic Caucus, that we have a constitutional responsibility to hold an out of control executive branch accountable.

– Hakeem Jeffries

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It's in the statement. You're just wrong about that. ... Because complete encompasses verifiable and irreversible. I suppose you could argue semantics, but let me assure you that it's in the document.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It's in the statement. You're just wrong about that... Because complete encompasses verifiable and irreversible. I suppose you could argue semantics, but let me assure you that it's in the document.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We would like to understand how the brain works under naturalistic conditions, toward such a goal, we are planning to investigate how various forms of information — vision, semantics, languages, impressions, etcetera — are encoded in the brain by modeling the relationship between our experiences and brain activity. We also aim to investigate how multimodal information is related to achieve semantic activities in the brain. In particular, we will work on generating descriptions about what a person thinks.

– Shinji Nishimoto

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Unfortunately, legal minds often get stuck on questions of semantics, when it is clear to most of us what the intent of the law is, i can’t stress enough how sorry I am for the victim and that she was denied justice.

– Scott Biggs

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The idea is much like the brain, when neuroscientists try to figure out the semantics of electrical states in the brain. We try to figure out how patterns are encoded in electrical states in the body.

– Michael Levin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

– H.R. Haldeman

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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