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Example Sentences

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As Ms. Stamper observes, “creating an unabridged dictionary is, at its core, a lesson in futility.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

The best a dictionary can do is map that unstable terrain for a moment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

As Philip Ball, who wrote How Life Works, puts it, looking to genes to explain who you are is like staring at the dictionary hoping to understand literature.

From Slate • Mar. 19, 2026

The Larousse dictionary for 11- to 15-year-old students contained the same phrase as that discovered by an anti-racism body in three revision books, the company told AFP.

From Barron's • Jan. 16, 2026

Mami bought me an English-English dictionary because that way, when I looked up a word I would be learning others.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago