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Lessig in a sentence

Lessig meaning

A surname.

Using Lessig

  • The main meaning on this page is: A surname.
  • In the example corpus, lessig often appears in combinations such as: lawrence lessig.

Context around Lessig

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
  • Position in the sentence: 10 start, 4 middle, 0 end
  • Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

lawrence 2× grace 1× congress 1× infobox 1× fora 1×

Often after:

believes 1× privacy 1× claims 1× focused 1× invited 1× wrote 1× focus 1×

Sentence patterns with Lessig

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

and lawrence lessig focus on 1× challenges infobox lessig s political 1× congress lessig believes is 1× era but lessig a professor 1× for lessig privacy breaches 1× lessig claims the 1× lessig focused the 1× lessig invited law 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

congress lessig believes 1× for lessig privacy 1× harvard law school 1× legal challenges infobox 1× legislative reform despite 1× lessig claims the 1×

Common sentence endings:

code and law 1× congresspeople are not 1× enforcement of copyright 1× in december 2006 1× information about themselves 1× into open law 1×

Words around Lessig

Just before it in the word index:

lessie 4 lesser 1.411 lessepsian 2 lesseps 13 lessens 55 lessening 61

Just after it in the word index:

lessin 2 lessing 23 lessler 2 lesslie 2 lessman 3 lesson 1.484

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaronson 18 abai 18 abass 18 abatements 18 abdulfatah 18 abebe 18

Corpus analysis for Lessig

  • In this selection, "lessig" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, lawrence, grace, congress, believes, privacy and claims stand out and add context to how "lessig" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include and lawrence lessig focus on and challenges infobox lessig s political. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "lessig" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with lessig

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Lessig said she had weighed the Y’s offer since November 2017. (12 words)

For Lessig, privacy breaches online can be regulated through code and law. (12 words)

Congress, Lessig believes, is corrupt even though the overwhelming majority of congresspeople are not. (14 words)

Longer example sentences

Lessig wrote that the point of Creative Commons is to provide a middle ground between two extreme views of copyright protection—one demanding that all rights be controlled, and the other arguing that none should be controlled. (37 words)

Mead’s Rory Carr, left, looks for an opening past Grace Lessig, right, Evergreen’s during the Class 4A Girls State Lacrosse Final at the Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium in Denver on Friday, May 17, 2024. (36 words)

You could fill an entire bookshelf with works about the crisis of democracy in the Trump era, but Lessig, a professor at Harvard Law School, has been eloquently hammering this point longer than most. (34 words)

Example sentences (14)

Mead’s Rory Carr, left, looks for an opening past Grace Lessig, right, Evergreen’s during the Class 4A Girls State Lacrosse Final at the Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium in Denver on Friday, May 17, 2024.

Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig is representing Washington electors in Wednesday’s arguments, taking place by phone because of the coronavirus.

You could fill an entire bookshelf with works about the crisis of democracy in the Trump era, but Lessig, a professor at Harvard Law School, has been eloquently hammering this point longer than most.

Congress, Lessig believes, is corrupt even though the overwhelming majority of congresspeople are not.

Lessig said she had weighed the Y’s offer since November 2017.

For Lessig, privacy breaches online can be regulated through code and law.

Legal challenges infobox Lessig's political opinions on copyright law have led to legal challenges where he has attempted to put them into action without legislative change.

Legislative reform Despite presenting an anti-regulatory standpoint in many fora, Lessig still sees the need for legislative enforcement of copyright.

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Lessig claims "the protection of privacy would be stronger if people conceived of the right as a property right", and that "individuals should be able to control information about themselves".

Lessig focused the Plaintiffs' brief to emphasize the Copyright clause restriction, as well as the First Amendment argument from the Appeals case.

Lessig invited law students at Harvard and elsewhere to help craft legal arguments challenging the new law on an online forum, which evolved into Open Law.

Lessig later updated his work in order to keep up with the prevailing views of the time and released the book as Code: Version 2.0 in December 2006.

Lessig wrote that the point of Creative Commons is to provide a middle ground between two extreme views of copyright protection—one demanding that all rights be controlled, and the other arguing that none should be controlled.

Richard Posner and Lawrence Lessig focus on the economic aspects of personal information control.

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Common combinations with lessig

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "lessig" in a sentence?
An example: "Mead’s Rory Carr, left, looks for an opening past Grace Lessig, right, Evergreen’s during the Class 4A Girls State Lacrosse Final at the Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium in Denver on Friday, May 17, 2024." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "lessig" from authentic English texts.
What does "lessig" mean?
Lessig means: A surname.
How many example sentences with "lessig" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "lessig", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.