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He frequently plucks from his tremendous word hoard gems that will send you to the dictionary: bonxie, fankle, rupestral, stramash, zawn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Lawyers also dug up archaic legal tracts and 19th century dictionary entries defining the word “election.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
McMahon relied on dictionary definitions, one of which describes DEI as “the idea that people have equal rights and treatment and be welcomed and included.”
From Slate ● May 14, 2026
If you’re chronically online like me, you’ve probably come across a slang-suffix that’s become part of the lexicon despite not being formally added to a dictionary — yet.
From Salon ● May 7, 2026
He returns drenched in sweat and hands me a pocket-size Spanish-English dictionary.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
Middle age enrichment included income level at age 40, access to resources such as magazine subscriptions, dictionaries, and library cards, and how often participants visited places like museums or libraries.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 15, 2026
Citing favorable definitions from several dictionaries, Thomas wrote that “loss” covers any “deprivation of mail.”
From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2026
Such stature is perhaps what is lost with online dictionaries and what the new Collegiate hopes to regain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
From 6-7 to skibidi and delulu, 2025 was the year when Generation Alpha slang entered everyday language and dictionaries with a vengeance.
From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025
They carried chess sets, basketballs, Vietnamese-English dictionaries, insignia of rank, Bronze Stars and Purple Hearts, plastic cards imprinted with the Code of Conduct.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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