And indeed they often do. Especially, words can acquire new meanings and lose old ones. For example, “audition” once meant the power of hearing.

I was reading a newspaper headline the other day and it referenced an event as being the “first annual.” It was grating, probably because I had just read a George Will column about “misapplied or worn ...

The paper, published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, reports that artificial intelligence systems can indeed learn very complicated word meanings, and the scientists discovered a simple trick ...