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The traditional definition of manifest included the adjective "easily noticed or obvious" and the noun "to show something ...

After weeks of deliberation and more than 37,000 votes worldwide, the Oxford English Dictionary has announced ... typically from too much "low quality" online content (particularly on social ...

The word, according to Oxford, has seen a 230 percent increase in usage between 2023 and 2024. But who decides what is the word of the year? Many dictionary ... are using our free time,” said ...

The dictionary’s bestowed word for ... and how we are using our free time,” said Casper Grathwohl, president of Oxford Languages, in a statement. “It feels like a rightful next chapter ...

Nigerian English words have recently been added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), but there ... "People should feel free to speak Pidgin but Pidgin isn't English." For the record, the ...

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