How to Use lexicography in a Sentence

lexicography

noun
  • Because that’s the right way to do lexicography.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
  • My kind of lexicography, anyway.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The first tool is lexicography, the academic study of creating dictionaries.
    — Phillip M. Carter, The Conversation, 28 May 2026
  • Other big names in American lexicography were already receding.
    — Stefan Fatsis, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2025
  • So, no, dictionaries of other languages haven’t had a significant influence on my relationship with the lexicography—or the history—of English.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Although dictionaries are imperfect, their definitions are the result of the rigorous study of word meaning and adherence to the scientific process of lexicography, the practice of writing and editing dictionaries and other reference materials.
    — Phillip M. Carter, The Conversation, 28 May 2026

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