Vaccine skeptics have said changes were introduced to "accommodate" the shortcomings of the COVID-19 vaccines.

The Oxford English Dictionary has updated its definition of youthquake to: "A significant cultural, political, or social change arising from the actions or influence of young." It was previously ...

Vax has been chosen as the word of the year by lexicographers at the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Words related to vaccines have spiked in frequency in 2021 due to Covid, with double-vaxxed ...

You can now raise a glass to 10 new Welsh words in the Oxford English Dictionary - including the phrase for cheers. Iechyd da, which means good health and is said before having a drink ...

Oct. 8, 2024 — Engineers have worked out how to give robots complex instructions without electricity, which could free up more space in the robotic 'brain' for them to 'think'. Mimicking how ...

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A selection of Welsh words and terms have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary as part of its latest update. Editors say the 10 Welsh words and phrases have been included as they have been ...

The University of Oxford, one of the world's oldest and most prestigious institutions, offers a top-tier Computer Science programme, ranked 4th globally by QS in 2025. Graduating with a degree in ...

“We continuously encounter new ways of describing the world around us, and the dictionary is a record of those changes.” Get ...

A dictionary is ordered alphabetically, which means you can find any word at all. When you find your word, you also find the definition – what it means. “A large amount of rain that suddenly f ...

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