Largest Dictionary of English Slang Is Now Free Online to Help You Talk Like a Zoomer

The NYT’s guide is particularly notable for its insistence that a significant amount of today’s slang isn’t new at all. The ...
Wall Street Journal

‘Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary’: People of the (Big, Red) Book

When I turned 13, I entered a part of the life cycle cherished by all Jewish kids and dreaded by their parents. This was the year of bar and bat mitzvahs—my own, but also those of friends, relatives, ...
IEEE

Structural Constraint and Discriminative Constraint Based Dictionary Pair Learning for Image Classification

Abstract: The dictionary learning algorithm is an effective image classification algorithm. To tackle with the problems including noise, occlusion, small sample problem, and so on, many discriminative ...
NPR

New Kremlin dictionary redefines common words and excludes others altogether

The Kremlin has a new "Explanatory Dictionary of the State Language of the Russian Federation." We look into some of the revised definitions of common words. Russia is doing this. They've published a ...
Investopedia

Understanding Betting Odds: Math, Probability, and Gambling

Samantha (Sam) Silberstein, CFP®, CSLP®, EA, is an experienced financial consultant. She has a demonstrated history of working in both institutional and retail environments, from broker-dealers to ...
CNN

Cambridge Dictionary’s 2025 word of the year captures an ‘unhealthy’ modern phenomenon

Cambridge Dictionary has named its word of the year for 2025, alighting on “parasocial,” used to describe a connection that people feel with someone they don’t know – or even with an artificial ...
CBS News

Parasocial, how you may have felt after Taylor Swift's engagement, is Cambridge Dictionary's word of the year

If you felt a personal connection with a celebrity this year, you likely weren't alone. That feeling led Cambridge Dictionary to select "parasocial" as its 2025 word of the year. Parasocial is defined ...
BBC

Parasocial is Cambridge Dictionary Word of the Year

Millions of fans relate to Taylor Swift's confessional lyrics about dating, heartbreak and desire, leading to "parasocial" bonds with stars, say psychologists "Parasocial" is the Cambridge ...
Reason

David Kopel Makes the Oxford English Dictionary Examples

From the usage examples for the word Hitlerist; the quote is from David's post Data on Mass Murder by Government in the 20th Century: When the speaker mentions that the government also slaughtered two ...
ubc.ca

Talk Canadian to me: Dictionary of Canadianisms goes mobile in time for July 1

All your favourite Canadianisms—and 137 new ones—just got easier to find, right in time for Canada Day. The UBC editors of the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles have released an ...
IEEE

A Novel Deep Transfer Adversarial Dictionary Learning Strategy for Bearing Cross-Domain Fault Diagnosis

Abstract: Dictionary learning (DL) has gradually demonstrated its unique advantages in many fields with its powerful feature extraction and data representation capabilities. However, it still has some ...