To do this, lawyers and judges will often use dictionaries published at the time the Constitution or an amendment to it was published, along with other writings.
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Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
3 Nov. 2025
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia — fear of long words (The longest word found in major English dictionaries is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a 45-letter word describing a lung disease caused by inhaling fine silica dust.
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Scott Lafee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Oct. 2025
As a childless person who doesn’t teach I’ve been happily unaware that, due to standardized testing requirements that favor close reads of excerpts over whole books, there’s an entire generation of students who have very little contextual framework for the literature they’re being taught in school.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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