Sentence examples for semantic error from inspiring English sources

My semantic error, however, in a column titled "Toxic Bailout," was in writing: "A headwind is one that is blowing in your face.

Viewers watching the interview at home were also quick to point out the semantic error: He refers to "coloured" people!

Apparently, a jail somewhere was refusing to release a defendant because of what Mr. Judelson saw as a semantic error in the paperwork.

Semantic and semantic error: Implicit access to semantic information from words and nonwords in deep dyslexia.

Substituting the former object in the context of the latter situation would be erroneous in other words, one unfamiliar with the story of Thor would be making a semantic error when bringing the household tool to mind while reading about the Demigod's weapon of choice.

Any comprehension error is a semantic error.

The consequences of the semantic error have, we argue, misdirected efforts to develop efficient health systems.

In voxel-based analysis with acute stroke patients, semantic error production in naming without word comprehension deficits was mainly associated with tissue dysfunction in left BA 44, 46 and BA 37 (Cloutman et al., 2009), and reperfusion of left BA 37 resulted in recovery of naming in acute stroke (Hillis et al, 2006 a ).