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Chief among them is the practice of naming each newborn by pointing to arandom word in the family dictionary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

A walking dictionary of Chinatown, Yu has been vocal about how “the older, poorer residents just can’t sustain a market.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 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

So we played euchre on a dictionary balanced on his lap, and when that started to prove a bit much we switched to Casino.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

These contemporaneous dictionaries and historical cases did not materialize for the first time in the court’s opinion.

From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2026

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

Its editor at large Peter Sokolowski points out in an interview that the company sold 1.5 million physical dictionaries last year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

The color namers at Pantone veer from the work of your Rolling Stones and Oxford dictionaries, taking in the year that was and forecasting the hue of the upcoming year.

From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2025

The Webster’s at the New York Public Library stood in the same relation to other dictionaries of my acquaintance as the Empire State Building did to other buildings.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides