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  "id": "express.communication",
  "term": "express",
  "sense": "communication",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "express",
  "domain": "language",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "A condition and information together make a meaning",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
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      "information.knowledge",
      "condition.state",
      "make.verb",
      "mean.signify",
      "meaning.significance"
    ],
    "interaction": "Condition and information interact to form a meaningful structure that endures.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "enduring significance",
      "integrated pattern",
      "emergent reference"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 1986 Chernobyl control room displayed reactor conditions while operators misunderstood the rising radiation levels.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Honeybees perform waggle dances that encode both their internal state and the direction of food sources.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2008, Lehman Brothers executives downplayed financial risk as credit default swaps reflected worsening market conditions.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "message.information",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "concise.linguistic",
    "english.language",
    "terms.language",
    "thank.social"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "express",
    "expressed",
    "expresses",
    "expressing"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Components added to align with definition; no rewording needed."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-express.communication"
}