I met Merl Reagle for the first time at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament ... the same — take some interesting words from the dictionary and redefine them to mean something completely ...

The dictionary tells us that it is probably a ... Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. (Obviously, in that time, there were grave misunderstandings of the intentions of the colonialists.) ...

Crossword puzzles may stimulate the brain ... A person can then use a dictionary to look up the meaning of the word and think up ways to use the word in a sentence. “Bilingualism” refers ...

Whether it’s solving crossword puzzles or showing frustrations ... has become so common that people often forget it wasn’t always this way. According to Dictionary.com, the English we know today ...

(The word beat out "brain rot," but one wonders if it did so among dictionary staff.) In reality, it’s been the word of the year since at least 2016, when President-elect Trump won the first ...

A spokesperson for Scripps explained to Fox News Digital that all words Scripps uses in its program are pulled from the Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary, which has the alternate spelling for ...

“It’s always been important to me that the dictionary serve as a kind of neutral and objective arbiter of meaning for everybody,” Sokolowski said. “It’s a kind of backstop for meaning in ...

Here are some language resolutions to consider for 2025. 1. Challenge a long-standing language belief by checking a dictionary. Unless you have a Ph.D. in linguistics, chances are you’ve fallen ...

(Merriam-Webster) "All of the words used in the Scripps National Spelling Bee program are pulled from our official dictionary, Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary. During the competition ...

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