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a list giving information about the meanings of specialized words
The book includes a glossary of financial terms.
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There’s even a complete glossary at the back of the book.
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Keyaira Boone, Essence, 24 Oct. 2025
DeepL offers features like creating a custom glossary and this year introduced a tool that asks follow up questions to clear-up ambiguities, which could help in niche domains.
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There was even a glossary of diagnosis codes that are used for billing.
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Keyaira Boone, Essence, 24 Oct. 2025
DeepL offers features like creating a custom glossary and this year introduced a tool that asks follow up questions to clear-up ambiguities, which could help in niche domains.
—Harry Booth, Time, 6 Oct. 2025
There was even a glossary of diagnosis codes that are used for billing.
—Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
On another page of the menu is a glossary of explanations for ingredients listed in some of the dishes.
—Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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For many decades, dictionaries were bestsellers and seen as the authority on the English language.—
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PEOPLE,
26 Dec. 2025
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But his dictionary, with its conclusiveness, was a huge publishing success.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
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