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Can the Dictionary Keep Up?

Books & the Arts / In Stefan Fatsis’s capacious, and at times score-settling, personal history of the reference book, he ...
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An eighth-grader from Clinton Township participating in his first spelling event won the Macomb County Regional Spelling Bee in a 12-round contest to outlast 32 other fifth-through-eighth graders.
Online users claimed the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who died in 2019, was referred to in the present tense in a 2023 email.
While the post originated from a spoof account that doesn't belong to the Russian president, many screenshots failed to label it as a parody.
Jennifer Siebel Newsom receives about $150,000 annually from The Representation Project, her nonprofit group dedicated to fighting gender stereotypes.
The term has skyrocketed in use in recent months among the very online far right, the ecosystem that gave rise to the ...
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Citing the Merriam-Webster dictionary’s definition of war – “A state of usually open and declared armed hostile conflict ...
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Online users said the video reminded them of the "Godzilla" franchise's King Ghidorah and "Game of Thrones" dragons, as well as mythical creatures.