Welcome! My name is Yonathan Arbel and I am an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Alabama. My areas of expertise are in contracts, commercial law, and torts. I teach classes and seminars in contracts, contract theory, and secured transactions. I enjoy thinking about social problems using the tools of law, economics, and sociology, and my work combines both theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of law.
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It’s not perfect, but it’s a really cool writing tool. It’s like a word association game. I typed “brittle” and got glass, fragile, thin, twigs, and the ever-useful frangible
@ProfArbel I don’t think this is the site I remember from 2012, because that site built out a graph of connections, where this one removes the previous word when you select a new one. But it’s similar. And maybe this is close enough to what you’re looking for.
http://visual-thesaurus.com
Is there a search engine for words in the “semantic space” of a given word? Like, ‘brittle’ is often used around words like windows, glass, deformation, malleability, fracture, etc.?