A critic faulted Webster’s Third in the 1960s for its “extreme tolerance of crude neologisms.” Similar complaints abound in ...

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A 7-year-old’s homework assignment using the word “down" in a sentence is trending up after it was posted on social media. Summer Toson, 25, was watching her younger sister, Malak, complete a ...

Word: Hucksters Lyric: "Industry disruptors and soul deconstructors and smooth-talking hucksters out glad-handing each other" ...

Merriam-Webster's 12th edition Collegiate Dictionary adds over 5,000 new words, including "petrichor" and "ghost kitchen," ...

Abstract: Underwater acoustic target recognition is essential for ocean monitoring, resource exploration, and military applications. However, the complexity of underwater environments and the scarcity ...

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Click Here to Share or Save. Do your students ask you how to spell “because” three times a week, even though it’s on the word wall? It might be time to dust off those dictionary skills. And yes, I ...

Paper Cuculo, V., D’Amelio, A., Grossi, G., Lanzarotti, R., & Lin, J. (2019). Robust single-sample face recognition by sparsity-driven sub-dictionary learning using ...

"Demure" is Dictionary.com's word of the year, with all the credit for its popularity going to lifestyle and beauty influencer Jools Lebron and her catchphrase, "very demure, very mindful." "Demure" ...