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For example, the different ways to use them in a sentence What to Know I.e. means “that is,” as in “She’s a Hoosier, i.e., she’s from Indiana.” E.g. means “for example,” as in “She roots for the local teams, e.g., the Pacers and the Colts.” How to Use 'i.e.' I.e. stands for the Latin id est, or 'that is,' and is used to introduce a word or phrase that restates what has been said previously. What f
Signs of a healthy language include words being created, words being borrowed from other languages, and new meanings being given to existing words. Based on our most recent research, we are pleased to inform you that English is very (very!) healthy. Below is a sample of the 690 recent additions we’ve made to our dictionary. Slang and Informal rizz noun, slang : romantic appeal or charm zhuzh noun
We may call them borrowings, but we're not giving them back Minamoto no Yoritomo, the first shogun of the Kamakura shogunate (1179). Definition: 1) a top leader (as in politics) 2) a businessperson of exceptional wealth and power : magnate They become tech tycoons by creating a media platform on which unpaid users do the work, for hours every day, and they sell ads against it. — Mary McNamara, The
'Authentic,' plus 'rizz,' 'deepfake,' 'coronation,' and other words that defined the year Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year for 2023 is authentic—the term for something we’re thinking about, writing about, aspiring to, and judging more than ever. A high-volume lookup most years, authentic saw a substantial increase in 2023, driven by stories and conversations about AI, celebrity culture, identity
Senpai may not have noticed us, but we've definitely noticed senpai Has senpai noticed you? Are you sure? WOW. We are SO happy for you. If you understand what we're talking about you might be an anime and/or manga fan. Or spend a lot of time on Tumblr. Or be a millennial. Or whatever comes after the millennials (which is probably Generation Z, but the jury is still out on that designation). In inf
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Trend Watch is a data-driven report on words people are looking up at much higher search rates than normal. While most trends can be traced back to the news or popular culture, our focus is on the lookup data rather than the events themselves.
What It Means A buttress is a structure built against a wall in order to support or strengthen it. More broadly, buttress may refer to anything that supports or strengthens. Buttress may also refer to something that resembles a buttress, such as a projecting part of a mountain or hill, a horny protuberance on a horse's hoof at the heel, or the broadened base of a tree trunk or a thickened vertical
Flower Etymologies For Your Spring Garden A bouquet of floral origin stories
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used to separate two or more marks and often as a concluding stroke at the end of an insertion
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The iPhone Goes Collegiate® Add some word power to your iPhone: Merriam-Webster has teamed up with Paragon Software to bring the best-selling Merriam-Websters Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition to Apples iPhone and iPod touch. This is no ordinary application as we have tailored the classic Collegiate® specifically for the devices, providing over 225,000 entries, a "History" feature, and in
The Word of the Day for October 15, 2008 is: palmary \PAL-muh-ree\ adj : outstanding, best Example Sentence: Louis Pasteur is best known for originating pasteurization, but he also made palmary contributions in the field of immunology, including finding a vaccination for anthrax. Did you know? English speakers have been using "palmary" since the 1600s, and its history stretches back even fur
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