Sentence examples for semantic distinction from inspiring English sources

Lesley Brown (1986) has argued that there is no sharp semantic distinction between the two syntactically distinct uses of the verb "to be" in "x is F" and "x is".

This is not a trivial semantic distinction.

Conway tried to make a semantic distinction.

In any case, it is a bit of semantic distinction.

However, this seems to be largely a semantic distinction.

Is there a consensus among discerning writers that it conveys an interesting semantic distinction?

So the entire controversy appears based on a semantic distinction — or perhaps inaccurate White House schedules.

Glad to clear that up, Mrs. Sarkozy, a semantic distinction conveyed with best wishes for a long and blissful monogamy.

In the end, Mr. Obama did utter the word, but only after rejecting (or was he denouncing?) the semantic distinction at issue.

The hope is that we can demarcate this distinction in such a way as to make progress in several topics distinct from the pragmatic-semantic distinction itself.

The episodic-semantic distinction did not arise in a hypnotic context, but source amnesia did.