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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Sep 4

    Folks, it's that time again. 🎉📖 We just added more than 800 new words to the dictionary! 🎉📖

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  2. 30 minutes ago

    📈Some terms that have spiked during the Kavanaugh hearings: - stare decisis - coin of the realm - amicus

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  3. 1 hour ago

    Oh hey, this week's Style Invitational is all about our new words! Now's your chance to finally add "Award-winning poet" to your resume.

    See The Washington Post's contest to write funny poems using some of the new terms -- GOAT, zoodle, hangry, tl; dr and dozens more. deadline 9-17.
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  4. 2 hours ago

    Early this week we added 'hophead,' a word meaning "beer enthusiast," to the dictionary. Today is . Coincidence? Yes. But anyway, cheers!

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  5. 5 hours ago

    Good morning! Today's is 'schmooze'

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  6. 14 hours ago

    📈Searches for 'megalomania' have risen over 4000% tonight after Dan Rather's appearance on CNN.

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  7. 18 hours ago

    Are you ready for some football (terms commonly used outside of sports)?! On a Thursday night?!

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  8. 20 hours ago

    📈Trending now on M-W: 'hirsute' Farewell, Bandit.

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  9. 23 hours ago

    *tries to send tweet, knocks over water glass, accidentally deletes urgent email, slips in water, finally sends* "Oh no, that tweet had a tpyo."

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  10. Sep 6

    In early use, 'blow the whistle' was used the same way as 'inform,' but over time developed connotations of delivering information likely to serve the public good.

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    Sep 6

    'rage' is from Middle English, from Middle French, from Late Latin 'rabia' from Latin 'rabies' "rage, madness" from 'rabere' "to rave, be mad;" akin to Sanskrit 'rabhas' "violence, impetuosity"

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  12. Sep 6

    'Aloud' vs. 'out loud' - which is fully established? Both, of course. Anyway, happy !

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  13. Sep 6

    Good morning! Today's is 'quiddity'

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  14. Sep 5

    The use of 'try and' is most at home in informal settings, but is otherwise grammatically fine.

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  15. Sep 5

    Figures.

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  16. Sep 5

    📈Also spiking from the NYT piece: 'amoral' and 'lodestar'

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  17. Sep 5

    📈Searches are way up for 'op-ed' after the New York Times published an anonymous piece by a White House official.

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  18. Sep 5

    Rat Flip Blow the whistle & other words for spilling the beans:

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  19. Retweeted
    Sep 5

    Learner's Word of the Day - chaos : complete confusion and disorder

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  20. Sep 5

    Stop us if you think you've heard this one before.

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  21. Sep 5

    📈'Collegiality' is the top search from this morning's Brett Kavanaugh hearing.

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