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a reference book giving information about the meanings, pronunciations, uses, and origins of words listed in alphabetical order
try to develop the habit of going to the dictionary whenever you encounter an unfamiliar word
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Others, like pain points and thought leaders, seem like things that AI got from business buzzword dictionaries.
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John Werner, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Based on that research, Coleman released an online Owens Valley Paiute dictionary, sentence builder and translator and hopes to continue building more advanced language-learning tools.
—Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
While previous inner speech decoders were limited to only a handful of words, the new device allowed participants to draw from a dictionary of 125,000 words.
—Emma R. Hasson, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2025
Eventually, the sum total of indexes constitutes a dictionary, in which each entry isn’t a word but a short sequence of DNA base pairs.
—Dmitri Pavlichin, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Aug. 2018
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John Werner, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Based on that research, Coleman released an online Owens Valley Paiute dictionary, sentence builder and translator and hopes to continue building more advanced language-learning tools.
—Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
While previous inner speech decoders were limited to only a handful of words, the new device allowed participants to draw from a dictionary of 125,000 words.
—Emma R. Hasson, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2025
Eventually, the sum total of indexes constitutes a dictionary, in which each entry isn’t a word but a short sequence of DNA base pairs.
—Dmitri Pavlichin, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Aug. 2018
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lexicon
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Tower of Now acts as a visual lexicon of architectural motifs, inviting viewers to find both familiarity and otherness.—
Lee Sharrock,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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However, every few years, a movie enters the cultural lexicon that comes across as lived-in and accessible.—
Robyn Mowatt,
Essence,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Dictionary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dictionary. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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