The 12th edition of “Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary” comes 22 years after the book's last hard-copy update and amid ...

Merriam-Webster adds 5,000 new words to dictionary - ‘Hard pass,’ ‘adulting’ and ‘cancel culture’ are all included ...

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Merriam-Webster announced Thursday it has taken the rare step of fully revising and reimagining one of its most popular ...

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To build their visual dictionary, the researchers examined two hours of video footage each of 25 wild octopuses in a variety ...