His hold on the media has changed attitudes and even the meaning of words.
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For a lover of language, the precise meaning of words contained in the law has been his goal.
Often the problems are less to do with the meaning of words than with their unexpected impact on an audience.
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Precisely because body size has become a personal, social and political issue, the use and meaning of words to describe it is important.
Dictionaries are routinely thought to be about the meaning of words.
In a sinister ironic climax, his boss, a police captain with a sadistic intellectual bent, pins him to the meaning of words looked up in the dictionary.
And it is not too legalistic to point out that a president of the United States should not be convicted of perjury and removed from office over an argument -- a dispute about what is and what is not the commonly accepted meaning of words in his testimony.
The BBC's legal affairs correspondent Clive Coleman said the High Court "meaning hearing" was held in front of a judge and involved both sides arguing over the meaning of the words in the tweet.
She challenged students to express their feelings about the meaning of the words and whether the writer's ideas worked.
It was as if the biologist were trying to determine the meaning of her words by looking at her.
Today we continue a never-ending journey to bridge the meaning of those words with the realities of our time.
Britten brings out the meaning of the words through instrumental coloration.
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And when the world is too sheepish to ask questions or too busy to decipher the meaning of his words, his job is a very easy one.
By requiring speakers to carefully consider the meaning of their words, he hoped that his analytical language would force many of the subterranean quirks of human cognition to the surface, and free people from the bugs that infect their thinking.
Once he has been accepted, Dr Kaufman and his colleagues start chipping away at the language's phonology (the sounds of which it is composed) and its syntax (how its meaning is changed by the order of words and phrases).
Which brings me to the question of how much meaning words contain.
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The second is the ability to combine words according to rules in such a way that the meaning of the combination is predictable from the meanings of the words and the way they are arranged.
In other cases, huge numbers of words contain little meaning at all.
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If I could have thought through the meaning of the moment in so many words, this is probably what I would have been thinking.
Artificial intelligence researchers at RPI want to do things like improve Watson's mathematical ability and help it quickly figure out the meaning of new or made-up words.
One can identify these forward-looking statements by the use of words such as "expected, " "planning, " "possibility, " "opportunity, " "goal, " "will, " "may, " "intend, " "anticipates, " "working toward" and other words of similar meaning.
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So, when do words have a lot of meaning?
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You can identify these statements by the fact that they use words such as "anticipate, " "estimate, " "expect, " "project, " "intend, " "should, " "plan, " "goal, " "believe, " and other words and terms of similar meaning in connection with any discussion of future operating or financial performance.
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Unfortunately, in all the words, a fair portion of the meaning tended to get lost.
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To decide the case, the justices had to rule directly on the meaning of the Second Amendment, a provision with only 27 words: A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
But for millions of people - and most of them are women - these words have no meaning, literally.
Glocal, meaning to be at once global and local, is one of those words management gurus like to coin.
The nature of words began to acquire an (apparently) settled meaning.
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