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From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

“True Color” is also a vivid account of the nearly Sisyphean task of compiling a dictionary for a living language.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

She pointed to the “ordinary meaning” and dictionary definition of the word regulate, arguing that the power to tax and raise revenue cannot fairly be made to fit within these definitions.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2026

What's a megastar to do when she has defined an entire summer, produced a multi-million-selling album and even persuaded the dictionary eggheads to declare "brat" a word of the year?

From Barron's • Jan. 24, 2026

He had started reading almost as soon as he entered school, struggling at first through the English books by looking up words and phrases in the big dictionary.

From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins