This isn't merely a semantic distinction.
Times, Sunday Times
The court also rejected the semantic distinction between studying and use made by the district court, finding it to be artificial.
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We have these subtle syntactical distinctions because they make subtle semantic distinctions.
Globe and Mail
Although infants concepts may be crude by adult standards, they still allow infants to make meaningful semantic distinctions.
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