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The best a dictionary can do is map that unstable terrain for a moment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
At times, however, the prose can feel overstuffed, as if mirroring the abundance of the dictionary it celebrates.
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
Soviet agents used a well-guarded codebook, a kind of secret dictionary, with thousands of words.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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