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a reference work that contains information about many different subjects or a lot of information about a particular subject
The school library's encyclopedia occupied much of the bookshelf. an encyclopedia of literature
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In the complaint, which Reuters reported on Monday, Britannica claimed that OpenAI unlawfully copied nearly 100,000 of its online articles and encyclopedia and dictionary entries to teach its GPT family of models.
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Frank Landymore, Futurism, 19 Mar. 2026
Her career is practically an encyclopedia of the folk revolution from Woody Guthrie through Cohen, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Anna McGarrigle.
—Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 16 Mar. 2026
Initially, Wikipedia editors uncovered evidence that the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that oversees the online encyclopedia, seemed to be fending off a vandalism attempt.
—Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 5 Mar. 2026
According to the Italian encyclopedia Treccani, a trattoria is generally more modest than a ristorante and is always autonomous—in other words, it's not connected to a hotel, train station, or ship.
—Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 27 Feb. 2026
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Frank Landymore, Futurism, 19 Mar. 2026
Her career is practically an encyclopedia of the folk revolution from Woody Guthrie through Cohen, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Anna McGarrigle.
—Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 16 Mar. 2026
Initially, Wikipedia editors uncovered evidence that the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that oversees the online encyclopedia, seemed to be fending off a vandalism attempt.
—Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 5 Mar. 2026
According to the Italian encyclopedia Treccani, a trattoria is generally more modest than a ristorante and is always autonomous—in other words, it's not connected to a hotel, train station, or ship.
—Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 27 Feb. 2026
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The club supplies 1,000 dictionaries each year for third graders at 10 Darien schools, as well as supports leadership training for high school students, NAMI DuPage, Humanitarian Service Project food for senior citizens in Darien, recycling events and environmental grants.—
Melinda Moore,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Apr. 2026
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According to the dictionary, this word means a record of ownership.—
Tyehimba Jess,
ARTnews.com,
17 Apr. 2026
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The ring was featured in Garrard's catalogue Diana chose her engagement ring from a selection of jewels in a catalogue from Garrard's, a longstanding royal jeweler.—
Kelsey Lentz,
PEOPLE,
19 Apr. 2026
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Teasingly, Bieber started to play his own videos, going back and back into his early catalogue.—
Vinson Cunningham,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2026
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Nowhere has the flipping of the form books been more striking than in La Liga, where two weekends ago — for only the third time in history — each of the bottom five teams picked up maximum points.—
Thom Harris,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2026
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There’s a shallow, 50-foot children’s pool with adjacent sun loungers and a playroom stacked with toys and books.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
20 Apr. 2026
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In 1494, Italian mathematician Luca Pacioli first took an early crack at the problem of points in his textbook, the title of which translates to Summary of Arithmetic, Geometry, Proportions and Proportionality.—
Jack Murtagh,
Scientific American,
19 Apr. 2026
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This was a textbook bait-and-switch on San Diego taxpayers.—
Johnny Lee Dang,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Apr. 2026
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“Encyclopedia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encyclopedia. Accessed 22 Apr. 2026.
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