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Mary and Joseph were absolutely refugees according to both the dictionary and the Gospel of Matthew.
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John Fugelsang
september 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
The dictionary, an A to Z guide to the global fashion and textiles trade, changes the language of fashion.
—Tonya Blazio-Licorish, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025
Others, like pain points and thought leaders, seem like things that AI got from business buzzword dictionaries.
—John Werner, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Based on that research, Coleman released an online Owens Valley Paiute dictionary, sentence builder and translator and hopes to continue building more advanced language-learning tools.
—Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
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John Fugelsang
september 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
The dictionary, an A to Z guide to the global fashion and textiles trade, changes the language of fashion.
—Tonya Blazio-Licorish, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025
Others, like pain points and thought leaders, seem like things that AI got from business buzzword dictionaries.
—John Werner, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Based on that research, Coleman released an online Owens Valley Paiute dictionary, sentence builder and translator and hopes to continue building more advanced language-learning tools.
—Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
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Together, these designers are creating a new style lexicon for Ukrainian men and, in the process, redefining menswear in a nation at war.—
Finbarr Toesland,
Robb Report,
24 Sep. 2025
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The name of the series has also penetrated the cultural lexicon as a way to refer to someone who has been deceptive about their identity online.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
23 Sep. 2025
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“Dictionary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dictionary. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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