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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

On that view, the statute’s design reveals Congress’ objective every bit as clearly as any dictionary definition.

From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026

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

I looked up the word scandal in my dictionary.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez

And I could go back to Google—just as I could have gone back to using dictionaries and library books.

From Slate ● May 6, 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

This is best experienced by looking them up, preferably in one of the dictionaries that provide all the roots back to the original, hypothetical fossil language of proto-Indo-European, and observing their behavior.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas