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That was my pre-internet encyclopedia, going through microfilms and doing research.—
Andy Battaglia,
ARTnews.com,
8 June 2026 -
Gates worked as a multimedia product developer for Microsoft in the 1980s, working on projects that included the company’s word processing software, Microsoft Word, and the company’s encyclopedia project, Encarta.—
Julian McKenzie,
New York Times,
1 June 2026
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Even late in life, Grier Martin said, his father collected language dictionaries, worked to learn new languages and filled his books with handwritten notes.—
Nora O'Neill,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Dec. 2025
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By the 1820s, objectivity and subjectivity were showing up in European dictionaries beside definitions that would seem familiar to us.—
Vauhini Vara,
The Atlantic,
8 Dec. 2025
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The vast catalogue of hits by the Gershwin brothers that this score was drawn from covers over a decade and includes some that were written for movies or variety shows rather than musicals.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
14 June 2026
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Lionsgate has taken an equity stake in the generative AI video company Runway and plans to pull from its existing catalogue of intellectual property for an AI short-form series, expanding a partnership the two companies struck in 2024 and cementing the studio’s bullish approach to the technology.—
Corbin Bolies,
Variety,
11 June 2026
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This 1500 page tome of an epistolary novel from 18th century great Samuel Richardson is about a perfect, beautiful, young woman whom everyone is mad at.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 June 2026
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Considered one of the definitive records of Monroe, the tome offers interviews with primary sources like former husband Arthur Miller, friend and mentor Lee Strasberg and directors Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder and John Huston.—
Pat Saperstein,
Variety,
1 June 2026
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“Cyclopedia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cyclopedia. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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