Our lexicographers monitor a huge range of sources to select which words and definitions to add,” Merriam-Webster's Peter ...

Google is expanding Gmail’s summary cards, the AI-driven contextual snippets extracted for things like incoming packages.

On October 1, Merriam-Webster added 200 new words and definitions to the dictionary, including “jam band,” a noun defined as ...

Shadow ban – noun, to cause (a user or their content) to be hidden from some or all other users, usually without the user’s knowledge Other words in the self-proclaimed “iconic dictionary” are late ...

Merriam-Webster is continuing to update its online platforms to best represent the English language, adding 200 new words and ...

The Noah Webster House celebrates its patriotic son with an online game show ... The rights to his dictionary were purchased by brothers George and Charles Merriam after Webster’s death.

The time a Nebraska woman tried to sue every gay person in existence in 2015 has, of course, become a meme. In 2015 Sylvia Driskell was a 66-year-old woman from Auburn, Nebraska. A woman who filed a ...

The trusty old Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a brain dump as ... Her story for BuzzFeed News won the 2022 American Journalism Online award for Best Debunking of Fake News.

The dictionary defines disenfranchise as “to deprive of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity, especially,to deprive of the right to vote” (Merriam Webster). For years ...

Merriam-Webster has revealed the 200 new words they’ve added to the dictionary’s 2024 edition, including several slang words and terms beloved by the younger generations. “Our lexicographers ...

Food loving Scrabble players, your time has come. Merriam-Webster just added over 200 words to its dictionary, and several of them are common American food terms. “Our lexicographers monitor a ...